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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.

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

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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.

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

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A writer should not so much write as embroider on paper

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

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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.

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Anton Chekhov
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Born: January 29, 1860
Died: July 15, 1904 (aged 44)
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