Author: Anton Chekhov

Cited by

• David Edmonds (1)
  • IN: Would You Kill The Fat Man? (2014) Non-Fiction, Philosophy, British
    EPIGRAPH: Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
    FROM: Note-Book of Anton Chekhov, (1987), Biography, Russia
• Julian Barnes (1)
  • IN: Staring at the Sun (1986) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: You ask me what life is? It is like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and nothing more is known.
    FROM: Chekhov to Olga Knipper, (1904), Conversation, Russia
• John le Carré (1)
  • IN: Our Game (1995) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: If I were living in the Caucasus, I would be writing fairy tales there/
    FROM: To Dmitry Grigorovich, (1888), Letter, Russia
• Clare Allan (1)
  • IN: Poppy Shakespeare (2006) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Since prisons and madhouses exist, why somebody is bound to sit in them.
    FROM: Ward No. 6, (1892), Short story, Russia
• John M. Cusick (1)
  • IN: Cherry Money Baby (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Of course, every girl must respect herself; there's nothing I dislike more than a badly behaved girl.
    FROM: The Cherry Orchard, (1904), Play, Russia
• Stephanie Clifford (1)
  • IN: Everybody Rise (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I was loved, happiness was not far away, and seemed to be almost touching me; I went on living in careless ease without trying to understand myself, not knowing what I expected or what I wanted from life, and time went on and on... People passed by me with their love, bright days and warm nights flashed by, the nightingales sang, the hay smelt fragrant, and all this, sweet and overwhelming in remembrance, passed with me as with everyone rapidly, leaving no trace, was not prized, and vanished like mist.... Where is it all?
    FROM: A Lady's Story, (1887), Short Story, Russia
• William and Capobianco, Michael Barton (1)
  • IN: Iris (1990) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The Falsehood that exalts we cherish more Than meaner truths that are a thousand strong.
    FROM: Pushkin in The Gooseberries, (1898), Short Story, Russia
• Robin Lippincott (1)
  • IN: In The Meantime (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Will anyone remember that there were three of us?
    FROM: Three Sisters, (1901), Play, Russia
• David Samuel Levinson (1)
  • IN: Tell Me How This Ends (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Every family has its joys and its horrors, but however great they may be, it's hard for an outsider's eye to see them; they are a secret.
    FROM: Difficult People, (1886), Short story, Russia
• Stuart M. Kaminsky (1)
  • IN: A Cold Red Sunrise (1988) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I stood there and I thought: what a full, intelligent and brave life will some day illuminate these shores.
    FROM: travel notes, (1890), NULL, Russia
• Olga Grjasnowa (1)
  • IN: All Russians Love Birch Trees (2012) Fiction, German
    EPIGRAPH: Vershinin: Why should you care? Here there's such a wholesome, bracing Russian climate. A forest, a river... and birch trees here too. Dear, humble birches, I love them more than any other tree. It's a good place to live. Only it's odd, the train station is over thirteen miles away... And nobody knows why that is.
    FROM: Three Sisters, (1901), Play, Russia
• Ryan Bartelmay (1)
  • IN: Onward Toward What We're Going Toward (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Any idiot can face a crisis; it's day-to-day living that wears you out.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Russia
• Guillermo Erades (1)
  • IN: Back to Moscow (2016) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Olga: (...) I feel how every day my strength and my youth are leaving me, drop by drop. Only one dream grows and gets stronger... Irina:To go back to Moscow, To sell the house, to finish everything here, and -- to Moscow... Olga: Yes! As soon as possible, to Moscow.
    FROM: Three Sisters, (1901), Play, Russia
• Chris Petit (1)
  • IN: Pale Horse Riding (2017) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: When life arises and flows along artificial channels rather than normal ones, and when its growth depends not so much on natural and economic conditions as on the theories and arbitrary behaviour of individuals, then it is forced to accept these circumstances as essential and inevitable, and these circumstances acting on an artificial life assume the aspects of laws.
    FROM: The Island of Sakhalin, (1893), Book, Russia
• Samuel Levinson, David (1)
  • IN: Tell Me How This Ends Well (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Every family has its joys and its horrors, but however great they may be, it’s hard for an outsider’s eye to see them; they are a secret.
    FROM: “Difficult People", (1886), Short story, Russia