Anton Chekhov defied description with his writing. With his limber and sharp mind he was able to craft and bring alive 18th Century Russia in such a delicate, poignant and deeply emotional way that it will leave you breathless and gasping. To read his short stories is to be plunged into a completely different realm. Although written over a century ago, the characters and their emotions and struggles resonate as clearly as a church bell.
“Only one who loves can remember so well.”
― Anton Chekhov, Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov
“Being in love shows a person how he ought to be.”
― Anton Chekhov, Select Tales of Anton Chekov
“They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.”
― Anton Chekhov, Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov
“The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.”
― Anton Chekhov
Six principles that make for a good story:
1. Absence of lengthy verbiage of a political-social-economic nature; 2. total objectivity; 3. truthful descriptions of persons and objects; 4. extreme brevity; 5. audacity and originality: flee the stereotype; 6. compassion.
― Anton Chekhov
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