Despite your best efforts, you could not invent a better police force for literature than criticism and the author's own conscience.


Letter to M.V. Kiseleva, January 14, 1887

Anton Chekhov Quotes

Despite your best efforts, you could not invent a better police force for literature than criticism and the author's own conscience.

Despite your best efforts, you could not invent a better police force for literature than criticism and the author's own conscience.

Despite your best efforts, you could not invent a better police force for literature than criticism and the author's own conscience.

Despite your best efforts, you could not invent a better police force for literature than criticism and the author's own conscience.