Against Quote by Tom Stoppard

“Be sure not to discuss your hero's state of mind. Make it clear from his actions." ( Letter to Alexander Chekhov , May 10, 1886)”

— Anton Chekhov

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

— Chad Harbach

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

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

— Al Pacino

For some reason in England, the word 'Chekhovian' is associated with drifting about with a parasol, a lot of weeping, and drinking tea from…

— Geraldine James

I'll take a [Pavel] Chekhov comparison any day! He's of course one of the great masters at the short story form, and has helped…

— Alexander Weinstein

“A bit of ideology and being up to date is most apropos,” Chekhov said—tongue in cheek, I suspect. In a more serious vein, he…

— Saul Bellow

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

The animadversions of critics are commonly such as may easily provoke the sedatest writer to some quickness of resentment and asperity of reply

— Samuel Johnson

Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.

— Salman Rushdie

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

— Tobias Wolff

Chekhov - shall I be blunt? - is the greatest short story writer who ever lived.

— George Saunders