Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian playwright and short story writer who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history. His career as a playwright produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Along with Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, Chekhov is often referred to as one of the three seminal figures in the birth of early modernism in the theatre. Chekhov practiced as a medical...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth29 January 1860
CityTaganrog, Russia
CountryRussian Federation
People understand God as the expression of the most lofty morality. Maybe He needs only perfect people.
One can only call that youth healthful which refuses to be reconciled to old ways and which, foolishly or shrewdly, combats the old. This is nature's charge and all progress hinges upon it.
Neither I nor anyone else knows what a standard is. We all recognize a dishonorable act, but have no idea what honor is.
You are right to demand that an artist engage his work consciously, but you confuse two different things: solving the problem and correctly posing the question.
Isolation in creative work is an onerous thing. Better to have negative criticism than nothing at all.
I myself smoke, but my wife asked me to speak today on the harmfulness of tobacco, so what can I do? If it's tobacco, then let it be tobacco.
When we retreat to the country, we are hiding not from people, but from our pride, which, in the city and among people, operates unfairly and immoderately.
People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.
Fine. Since the tea is not forthcoming, let's have a philosophical conversation.
The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
A man wants nothing so badly as a gooseberry farm.
In Russia there is no philosophy, but philosophize everything, even the small fry.
Faith is a capacity of the spirit. It is like talent: you have to be born with it
I let myself go at the beginning and write with an easy mind, but by the time I get to the middle I begin to grow timid and to fear my story will be too long. . .That is why the beginning of my stories is always very promising and looks as though I were starting on a novel, and the middle is huddled and timid, and the end is...like fireworks.