And love Quote by Vasily Grossman

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

“Though many of my arguments will be coolly analytical — that an acknowledgment of human nature does not, logically speaking, imply the negative outcomes…

— Steven Pinker

By complex ways, by looking deep into the dark well of the human soul, full of filth, somewhere at the very bottom of it…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

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

“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

“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

For the traveler we see leaning on his neighbor is an honest and well-meaning man and full of melancholy, like those Chekhov characters so…

— Orhan Pamuk

“No man can be a good bishop if he loves his title but not his task.”

— Augustine of Hippo

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

“For whatever reason God chose to make man as he is— limited and suffering and subject to sorrows and death—He had the honesty and…

— Dorothy L. Sayers