Middle class Quote by Vladimir Nabokov

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

— Al Pacino

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

— Tobias Wolff

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

— Chad Harbach

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

“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 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

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

— George Saunders

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

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

— Salman Rushdie

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

Chekhov directors and Chekhov actors love working on his plays because there seems to be no end to what you can find out about…

— Tom Stoppard

“To define his tendency in a word, I would say that Chekhov was the poet of hopelessness. Stubbornly, sadly, monotonously, during all the years…

— Lev Shestov