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
The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious
When men ask me how I know so much about men, they get a simple answer: everything I know about men, I learned from me.
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.
Can words such as Orthodox, Jew, or Catholic really express some sort of exclusive personal virtues or merits?
Try to be original in your play and as clever as possible; but don't be afraid to show yourself foolish; we must have freedom of thinking, and only he is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
It is a poor thing for the writer to take on that which he doesn't understand.
What truth? You see where truth is, and where untruth is, but I seem to have lost my sight and see nothing. You boldly settle all important questions, but tell me, dear, isn't it because you're young, because you haven't had time to suffer till you settled a single one of your questions? You boldly look forward, isn't it because you cannot foresee or expect anything terrible, because so far life has been hidden from your young eyes? You are bolder, more honest, deeper than we are, but think only, be just a little magnanimous, and have mercy on me.
I am writing a play which I probably will not finish until the end of November. I am writing it with considerable pleasure, though I sin frightfully against the conventions of the stage. It is a comedy with three female parts, six male, four acts, a landscape (view of the lake), lots of talk on literature, little action and tons of love.
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.
One had better not rush, otherwise dung comes out rather than creative work.
A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages - first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.
A woman is fascinated not by art but by the noise made by those in the field.