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Anton Chekhov

Russian dramatist and author

1860–1904

32 quotes, most often on Writing, Beauty and Life & Death.

It’s not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.
The Seagull (1896), Act IV
- Writing
Violent obsessions sometimes lay hold of a man: he may, for instance, think day and night of nothing but the moon. I have such a moon. Day and night I am held in the grip of one besetting thought, to write, write, write!
The Seagull (1896), Act II, spoken by TrigorinIn context
- Writing
To my dying day I shall hear people say: “Clever and pretty; clever and pretty,” and nothing more; and when I am gone, those that knew me will say as they pass my grave: “Here lies Trigorin, a clever writer, but he was not as good as Turgenieff.”
The Seagull (1896), Act II, spoken by TrigorinIn context
- Fame
- Writing
The conviction is gradually forcing itself upon me that good literature is not a question of forms new or old, but of ideas that must pour freely from the author’s heart, without his bothering his head about any forms whatsoever.
The Seagull (1896), Act IV, spoken by TreplieffIn context
- Writing

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