Anton Chekhov - Write Quotes

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Is it our job to judge? The gendarme, policemen and bureaucrats have been especially prepared by fate for that job. Our job is to write, and only to write.

Anton Chekhov

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.

Anton Chekhov

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.

Anton Chekhov

It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.

Anton Chekhov

A writer should not so much write as embroider on paper

Anton Chekhov

Everyone judges plays as if they were very easy to write. They don't know that it is hard to write a good play, and twice as hard and tortuous to write a bad one.

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He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.

Anton Chekhov

Women writers should write a lot if they want to write. Take the English women, for example. What amazing workers.

Anton Chekhov