Chekhov Quote by Tobias Wolff Download Open image “I love Chekhov. I could go on all day about him.” — Tobias Wolff ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Chekhov Goes on Love
Chekhov, when it's done well and you're ready for it, can actually be quite funny. — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
I love Paul Giamatti - God, that man is like a walking Chekhov. His connection to humanity is unbelievable, and those feelings of low… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I go to see plays all the time, and whenever I see Chekhov, I'm amazed at how this Russian play strikes home to me… — Neil Simon Copy Share Image
I really like the stuff that is very absurd and very real at the same time. I think Anton Chekhov is the greatest comedy… — Rainn Wilson Copy Share Image
Another older writer that had a huge influence on me is Chekhov. More contemporarily, it's hard to say. — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
Do you really think that Chekhov is Chekhov because he wrote about social phenomena, readjustments of a new industrial middle class, kulaks and rising… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Chekhov - shall I be blunt? - is the greatest short story writer who ever lived. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow. — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
You boys know what tropism is, it's what makes a plant grow toward the light. Everything aspires to the light. You don't have to… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
We even talked like Hemingway characters, though in travesty, as if to deny our discipleship: That is your bed, and it is a good… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
“But for now Anders can still make time. Time for the shadows to lengthen on the grass, time for the tethered dog to bark… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
One of the last courses I taught was on the Russian short story, which I love. — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
“He did not remember when everything began to remind him of something else.” — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
Because I don't have to be careful of people's feelings when I teach literature, and I do when I'm teaching writing. — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
Work for most people is really very social, and the actual thinking is often done in community. — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
Writers cannot let themselves be servants of the official mythology. They have to, whatever the cost, say what truth they have to say. — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
One can imagine a world without essays. It would be a little poorer, of course, like a world without chess, but one could live… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
I was giving up--being realistic, as people liked to say, meaning the same thing. Being realistic made me feel bitter. — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
“Lose Faith. Pray anyway. Persist. We are made to persist, to complete the whole tour. That's how we find out who we are.” — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
There are no whys in a person's life, and very few hows. In the end, in search of useful wisdom, you could only come… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
“He did not want to be original; he made superhuman efforts to be like everybody else: but there is no escaping one's destiny.” — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“He keeps going, going, going on; his people groan and fall one after the other, but he keeps on going, going and in the… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I don't think my looks are modern. I always imagined I'd end up doing Chekhov, Ibsen and Shakespeare all my life and never play… — Alex Kingston Copy Share Image
Chekhov will seek out the key situation in the life of a cabman or a charwoman, and make them glow for a brief moment… — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
As Michael (Chekhov)'s pupil, I learned more about acting. I learned psychology, history, and the good manners of art - taste. — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
If we're lucky, writer and reader alike, we'll finish the last line or two of a short story and then just sit for a… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
Chekhov said: let's put God - and all these grand progressive ideas - to one side. Let's begin with man; let's be kind and… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
When we remove the snowdrift piled up over Chekhov in recent years, we uncover a man profoundly agitated by social problems; a writer whose… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Read the great stuff, but read the stuff that isn't so great, too. Great stuff is very discouraging. If you read only Beckett and… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
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