#chekhov

Every science has a beginning but no end. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#love-and-other-stories #short-stories #love

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

— Tobias Wolff

#all day #chekhov #could #day #go

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

— Uta Hagen

#hardest #i #i love #love #most

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

#dramas #i #into #parlor #shakespeare

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

— George Saunders

#chekhov #ever #greatest #i #lived

Faith is a capacity of the spirit. It is like talent: you have to be born with it. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#love-and-other-stories #short-stories #faith

Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#books #education #learning #wisdom #age

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