Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian playwright and short story writer who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history. His career as a playwright produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Along with Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, Chekhov is often referred to as one of the three seminal figures in the birth of early modernism in the theatre. Chekhov practiced as a medical...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth29 January 1860
CityTaganrog, Russia
CountryRussian Federation
My love is like a stone tied round my neck; it's dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone. I can't live without it.
Desription should be very brief and have an incidental nature.
For God's sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.
My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.
He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
There are no small number of people in this world who, solitary by nature, always try to go back into their shell like a hermit crab or a snail.
When asked, "Why do you always wear black?", he said, "I am mourning for my life.
In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations! Be sure not to discuss your hero's state of mind. Make it clear from his actions. Nor is it necessary to portray many main characters. Let two people be the center of gravity in your story: he and she.
The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
Three o'clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking at my windows and caressingly winking at me with its stars. I can't sleep, I am so happy.
The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.
Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.