All Anton Chekhov Quotes
- When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you;… Born
- Write only of what is important and eternal. Eternal
- When describing nature, a writer should seize upon small details, arranging them so that the reader will see an image in his mind after he… Activities
- Be sure not to discuss your hero's state of mind. Make it clear from his actions. Action
- Let the things that happen on the stage be just as complex and yet just as simple as they are in life. For instance, people… Complex
- To live simply to die is by no means amusing, but to live with the knowledge that you will die before your time, that's really… Amusing
- A writer should not so much write as embroider on paper; the work should be painstaking, laborious. Embroider
- In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations! Character
- It's even pleasant to be sick when you know that there are people who await your recovery as they might await a holiday. Await
- Anyone who says the artist's field is all answers and no questions has never done any writing or had any dealings with imageryYou are confusing… All
- Everything I have written up to now is trifling compared to that which I would like to write and would write with great pleasureEither I… All
- Despite your best efforts, you could not invent a better police force for literature than criticism and the author's own conscience. Best
- There isn't a Monday that would not cede its place to Tuesday. Cede
- Your talent sets you apart: if you were a toad or a tarantula, even then, people would respect you, for to talent all things are… All
- Idea for a short story. The shore of a lake, a young girl who's spent her whole life beside it, a girl like you She… Along
- I'm the seagull. No, that's not it. I'm an actress. That's it. Actress
- 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… Alike
- 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… All
- When a person hasn't in him that which is higher and stronger than all external influences, it is enough for him to catch a good… All
- Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone. Alone
- I am now and have always been a stranger to the realm of practical matters. Been
- "Do you know," Ivan Bunin recalls Anton Chekhov saying to him in 1899, near the end of his too-short life, "for how many years I… Answered
- I long to embrace, to include in my own short life, all that is accessible to man. I long to speak, to read, to wield… Accessible
- 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… Action
- I still lack a political, religious and philosophical world view - I change it every month - and so I'll have to limit myself to… Birth