Anton Chekhov on Writing
Browse 7 quotations attributed to Anton Chekhov, catalogued under writing, with dates where available.
This page displays 7 quotations attributed to Anton Chekhov and filed under "writing" in QuoteLineage. The selection is ordered by stored importance and quality scores, not citation counts. A topic label describes how an entry is catalogued; it does not establish the theme's importance in the author's work.
Attributed to Anton Chekhov, entry #10759: "Narrative prose is a legal wife, while drama is a posturing, boisterous, cheeky and wearisome mistress."
Attributed to Anton Chekhov, entry #195129: "It’s easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook."
7 Quotes by Anton Chekhov on Writing
"Narrative prose is a legal wife, while drama is a posturing, boisterous, cheeky and wearisome mistress."
"It’s easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook."
"A man who doesn’t drink is not, in my opinion, fully a man."
"One can prove or refute anything at all with words. Soon people will perfect language technology to such an extent that they’ll be proving with mathematical precision that twice two is seven."
"Writers are as jealous as pigeons."
"The more elevated a culture, the richer its language. The number of words and their combinations depends directly on a sum of conceptions and ideas; without the latter there can be no understandings, no definitions, and, as a result, no reason to enrich a language."
"I abide by a rule concerning reviews: I will never ask, neither in writing nor in person, that a word be put in about my book.... One feels cleaner this way. When someone asks that his book be reviewed he risks running up against a vulgarity offensive to authorial sensibilities."