Artist Quote by Robert Wilson

My favorite author is Anton Chekhov, not so much for the plays but for his short stories, and I think he was really my…

— Gene Wilder

Ibsen, Chekhov, Shakespeare, and Beckett to me are the most revolutionary.

— John Cameron Mitchell

[Anton] Chekhov is the most produced playwright in the world after Shakespeare, and most of the people in my sort of audience would have…

— Robert Dessaix

“Douglas Adams. Kurt Vonnegut. Neal Stephenson. Richard K. Morgan. Stephen King. Orson Scott Card. Terry Pratchett. Terry Brooks. Bester, Bradbury, Haldeman, Heinlein, Tolkien, Vance,…

— Ernest Cline

I read Lorrie Moore and Marilynne Robinson and Jhumpa Lahiri and Richard Ford, John Updike, Anton Chekhov, Vladimir Nabokov - all of whom I…

— Michelle Zauner

Another older writer that had a huge influence on me is Chekhov. More contemporarily, it's hard to say.

— Chad Harbach

Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.

— Al Pacino

“Kurt Vonnegut. Neal Stephenson. Richard K. Morgan. Stephen King. Orson Scott Card. Terry Pratchett. Terry Brooks. Bester, Bradbury, Haldeman, Heinlein, Tolkien, Vance, Gibson, Gaiman,…

— Ernest Cline

Chekhov would have been an excellent screenwriter. He is singularly good at dipping in and out of a group of people's lives, like Robert…

— Stephen Karam

Chekhov, when it's done well and you're ready for it, can actually be quite funny.

— Vera Farmiga

I see this quality [real interest and joy] in the work of [Pavel] Chekhov, of course, and [Alexei] Tolstoy and really just about any…

— George Saunders

As with Shakespeare, we keep revisiting Chekhov.

— Geraldine James