Chekhov Quotes

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

  

  Al Pacino
  • Important
  • Writer
  • Chekhov

• Having translated two plays by Chekhov, and not speaking Russian myself - I cannot say one sentence. This may shock people... However, I am not shocked, as it is not hard to find out what the words mean.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • People
  • May
  • Words

• No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Character
  • Emphasis
  • Pathetic

• One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, "The Sea Gull," when was 14 in the Bronx.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Things
  • Sea
  • Bronx

• I'm into parlor dramas. I'm into theatre. I'm trained for the stage. I trained to do Chekhov and Shakespeare, I was trained for the stage.

  

  Tom Hardy
  • Drama
  • Theatre
  • Stage

• I played Hamlet, I played Chekhov and Ibsen and all the classics.

  

  Harvey Korman
  • Hamlet
  • Classics
  • Ibsen

• Yes sir. You can be more careless, you can put more trash in a novel and be excused for it. In a short story that's next to the poem, almost every word has got to be almost exactly right. In the novel you can be careless but in the short story you can't. I mean by that the good short stories like Chekhov wrote. That's why I rate that second - it's because it demands a nearer absolute exactitude. You have less room to be slovenly and careless. There's less room in it for trash.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Novel
  • Wrote
  • Trash

• According to Chekhov," Tamaru said, rising from his chair, "once a gun appears in a story, it has to be fired." "Meaning what?" "Meaning, don't bring unnecessary props into a story. If a pistol appears, it has to be fired at some point. Chekhov liked to write stories that did away with all useless ornamentation.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Write
  • Meaning
  • Fired