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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
Doctors and kind relations will succeed in stupefying mankind, in making mediocrity pass for genius and in bringing civilisation to ruin. If only you knew,”