Quote by Haruki Murakami

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

“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

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

— Haruki Murakami

“Anton Chekhov said that, when the audience sees a loaded pistol on the wall in act 1, it must go off by act 3.”

— F.H. Buckley

“Not all guns have to be fired. A pistol is just a tool and where I am living is not a story book world.…

— Haruki Murakami

“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

“So you're thinking you'd rather not hand me a pistol?' 'They're dangerous. And illegal. And Chekov is qa writer you can trust.' 'But this…

— Haruki Murakami

“Be sure not to discuss your hero's state of mind. Make it clear from his actions." ( Letter to Alexander Chekhov , May 10, 1886)”

— Anton Chekhov

Chekhov, when it's done well and you're ready for it, can actually be quite funny.

— Vera Farmiga

“Maybe Shooter was a writer. He fulfilled both of the main requirements: he told a tale you wanted to hear to the end, even…

— Stephen King

Chekhov - shall I be blunt? - is the greatest short story writer who ever lived.

— George Saunders

“Chekhov, knowing the weight of his own country’s history of serfdom, spoke of how Russians must squeeze the slave out of themselves, drop by…

— Adam Hochschild