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Chekhov, a practicing doctor during his short but prolific career as a playwright and master of short fiction, famously said that medicine was his wife and literature was his mistress.
Suzanne Koven • Letter to a Young Female Physician: Notes from a Medical Life
Chekhov and Tolstoy,
Amor Towles • A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel
“According to Chekhov,” Tamaru said, rising from his chair, “once a gun appears in a story, it has to be fired.”
Haruki Murakami • 1Q84: Books 1 and 2
Anton Chekhov: The Collected Novellas and Short Stories in Multiple Translations: Over 200 Stories From the Renowned Russian Playwright and Author of Uncle ... No. 6 , The Lady with the Dog and Others
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It was probably Chekhov who said that the novelist is not someone who answers questions but someone who asks them. It was a memorable phrase, but Chekhov applied this attitude not only to his works but to his life as well.
Haruki Murakami • 1Q84: Books 1 and 2
Anton Chekhov was born #OnThisDay in 1860. Many of his works have been recommended on Five Books. “His stories are mould breaking in the sense that nobody wrote short stories like Chekhov and now everybody writes short stories like Chekhov.” William Boyd https://t.co/2Jhqh80Dkl
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