Anton Chekhov Quote by Yuval Noah Harari

“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

“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

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

— 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

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

“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

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

— Vera Farmiga

“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

Having translated two plays by Chekhov, and not speaking Russian myself - I cannot say one sentence. This may shock people... However, I am…

— Tom Stoppard

I go to see plays all the time, and whenever I see Chekhov, I'm amazed at how this Russian play strikes home to me…

— Neil Simon

[Anton] Chekhov is the most produced playwright in the world after Shakespeare, and most of the people in my sort of audience would have…

— Robert Dessaix