About Quote by Tom Stoppard

A play is basically a long, formalistic polemic. You can write it without the poetry, and if you do, you may have a pretty…

— David Mamet

[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

I am very aware that playwrights, particularly good ones, have a intention for everything they write. Language and punctuation is used specifically, and most…

— Laura Linney

I love playing Chekhov. That's the hardest; that's why I love it most.

— Uta Hagen

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

— Al Pacino

I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think,…

— Peter Shaffer

As with Shakespeare, we keep revisiting Chekhov.

— Geraldine James

I write plays about big, intense subjects.

— Anna Deavere Smith

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

The play is one of the very few pieces of great dramatic and comic writing that I have read in a long, long time.…

— Linda Lavin

I love Chekhov. I could go on all day about him.

— Tobias Wolff

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