Chekhov Quote by Vivian Gornick

And I was troubled by the heavy-handed prose of so much psychoanalytic writing, which seemed drowned in its own concepts.

— Robert Jay Lifton

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

— Chad Harbach

I think probably I've been influenced by Chekhov and Walt Disney, if you see what I mean.

— Tom Stoppard

“…the neurotic torture of being seductive regularly—by the night: the more that perchance the struggle always is unconscious.”

— Mary MacLane

Although psychoanalysis has influenced me personally, it has had curiously little influence on my writing. This may be because writers learn from other writers,…

— Janet Malcolm

I did Chekhov's Three Sisters once. Two months in, I remember going, "Human beings shouldn't be forced to do or watch this play every…

— Justin Theroux

“The Unconscious, lately discovered by Professor Freud and used by others to store their joys, fears and frustrations, was for Nerine a gigantic subterranean…

— Eva Ibbotson

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

— Al Pacino

“Even Freud was fooled by the hysterics of women’s responses and wrote them off as largely incapable, random and duplicitous to their own interests.”

— Rollo Tomassi

Between the ages of 24 and 27, I read Freud's complete works, everything that had been translated into English. It was very stimulating intellectually.…

— Nathaniel Branden

“psychoanalysis is not a science: it is at best a medical process, and perhaps even more like witch-doctoring.”

— Richard P. Feynman

Reading Chekhov was just like the angels singing to me.

— Eudora Welty