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Make Quotes by Anton Chekhov
- If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go.
- If you cry ''Forward'' you must be sure to make clear the direction in which to go. Don't you see that if you fail to…
- When you describe the miserable and unfortunate, and want to make the reader feel pity, try to be somewhat colder - that seems to give…
- One must never place a loaded rifle on the stage if it isn't going to go off. It's wrong to make promises you don't mean…
- Be sure not to discuss your hero's state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.
- The time has come for writers, especially those who are artists, to admit that in this world one cannot make anything out, just as Socrates…
- One usually dislikes a play while writing it, but afterward it grows on one. Let others judge and make decisions,
- Watching a woman make Russian pancakes, you might think that she was calling on the spirits or extracting from the batter the philosopher's stone.
- 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…
- [Six principles that make for a good story:] 1. Absence of lengthy verbiage of a political-social-economic nature; 2. total objectivity; 3. truthful descriptions of persons…
- We are accustomed to live in hopes of good weather, a good harvest, a nice love-affair, hopes of becoming rich or getting the office of…
- Anna Petrovna (to Shabelsky): You can't make a simple joke without an injection of venom. You are a poisonous man. Joking apart, Count, you're very…
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