Chekhov Quote by F.H. Buckley

“Anton Chekhov famously said that a gun appearing in the first act of a play will inevitably be fired in the third. Throughout”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“If a pistol appears, it has to be fired at some point. Chekhov liked to write stories that did away with all useless ornamentation.”

— Haruki Murakami

“There's an old rule of theater that goes, 'If there's a gun on the mantel in Act I, it must go off in Act…

— Stephen King

“If you have a rifle, hanging on the wall in the first act, it should fire in the last act”.”

— Constantin S Stanislavski

If there's a gun on the wall in act one, scene one, you must fire the gun by act three, scene two. If you…

— Anton Chekhov

“Over the last seventy years humankind has broken not only the Law of the Jungle, but also the Chekhov Law. Anton Chekhov famously said…

— Yuval Noah Harari

If there is a gun hanging on the wall in the first act, it must fire in the last.

— Anton Chekhov

“According to Chekhov,” Tamaru said, rising from his chair, “once a gun appears in a story, it has to be fired.”

— Haruki Murakami

If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired. Otherwise don't…

— Anton Chekhov

According to Chekhov," Tamaru said, rising from his chair, "once a gun appears in a story, it has to be fired." "Meaning what?" "Meaning,…

— Haruki Murakami

“It’s like a pistol in a stage play: when someone waves a pistol during the first act, you can bet your bottom dollar that…

— Herman Koch

“One should not put a loaded rifle onto the stage if no one is thinking of firing it.”

— Anton Chekhov