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Write Quotes by Anton Chekhov
- It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.
- Cross out as many adjectives and adverbs as you can. ... It is comprehensible when I write: "The man sat on the grass," because it…
- In descriptions of Nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture. For…
- Write only of what is important and 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…
- A writer should not so much write as embroider on paper; the work should be painstaking, laborious.
- 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…
- The critics suppose that it is easy to write a play. They aren't aware that writing a good play is difficult and writing a bad…
- Write, write, write-till your fingers break.
- I confess I seldom commune with my conscience when I write.
- 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…
- Write about this man who, drop by drop, squeezes the slave's blood out of himself until he wakes one day to find the blood of…
- If an intelligent, educated, and healthy man begins to complain of his lot and go down-hill, there is nothing for him to do but to…
- He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
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