High school Quote by Stephen Karam

That became my aesthetic - a very Chekhovian, American realist aesthetic in the tradition of Raymond Carver, Richard Ford, and Tobias Wolff. The perfectible,…

— Jess Row

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

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

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

'The Glass Menagerie' by Tennessee Williams is a great play. I had to read it for school when I was younger, but I started…

— Jake T. Austin

Reading Chekhov was just like the angels singing to me.

— Eudora Welty

I write tragedies and things when I'm alone. Chekhovian dramas.

— Julian Barratt

In my teaching, I try to expose my students to the widest range of aesthetic possibilities, so I'll offer them stories from Anton Chekhov…

— Chang-Rae Lee

I was obsessed with theatre and loving the work of Caryl Churchill, Edward Bond, Howard Brenton, and Howard Barker, people doing real formal experimentation.…

— John Tiffany

I was really exposed to great old-time literature - the classics, the poetic realists like Strindberg and Ibsen and all those guys. I was…

— Kurt Sutter

All of the disparate books on my list contain characters, scenes or voices that linger long past the last page of their stories.

— Maureen Corrigan