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
Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart...
Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.
The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky.
A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.
People should be beautiful in every way - in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.
People's destinies are so different. Some people drag along, unnoticed and boring—they're all alike, and they're all unhappy. Then there are others, like for instance you—you're one in a million. You're happy—
All I wanted was to say honestly to people: 'Have a look at yourselves and see how bad and dreary your lives are!' The important thing is that people should realize that, for when they do, they will most certainly create another and better life for themselves. I will not live to see it, but I know that it will be quite different, quite unlike our present life. And so long as this different life does not exist, I shall go on saying to people again and again: 'Please, understand that your life is bad and dreary!'
Formerly, when I would feel a desire to understand someone, or myself, I would take into consideration not actions, in which everything is relative, but wishes. Tell me what you want and I'll tell you who you are.
Be sure not to discuss your hero's state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.
The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.