#chekhov

Reading Chekhov, I felt not happy, exactly, but as close to happiness as I knew I was likely to come. And it occurred to me that this was the pleasure and mystery of reading, as well as the answer to those who say that books will disappear. For now, books are still the best way of taking great art and its consolations along with us on a bus. ↗

— Francine Prose

#chekhov #literature #reading #art

I love playing Chekhov. That's the hardest; that's why I love it most. ↗

— Uta Hagen

#hardest #i #i love #love #most

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

— George Saunders

#chekhov #ever #greatest #i #lived

The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis. ↗

— Leon Edel

#admired #always #answer #building #busy

If you want to work on your art, work on your life. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#art

In my career, there have been three things that were challenging: playing gay; playing a Jewish woman; and playing Chekhov. The scariest part was playing Chekhov! ↗

— Bernadette Peters

#career #challenging #chekhov #gay #jewish

Actors are hard to photograph because they never want to reveal who they are. You don't know if you're getting a character from a Chekhov play or a Polanski film. It depends what mood they're in. ↗

— David Bailey

#character #chekhov #depends #film #getting

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

— Harvey Korman

#classics #hamlet #i #ibsen #played

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

— Vladimir Nabokov

#characters #chekhov #created #emphasis #less