Anton Chekhov Quotes, Writing Quotes, Important Quotes

Write only of what is important and eternal.

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Authors were shy, unsociable creatures, atoning for their lack of social aptitude by inventing their own companions and conversations.

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I do not waste my time writing pot-boilers: the pot must be boiled, and even my pot au feu has some chunks of fresh meat in it. ...I have no time to boil myself down; and anyhow I could not do so and preserve all the necessary nutriment and the flavoring on which the digestibility depends.

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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?

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What is the end of Fame? 'tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper: Some liken it to climbing up a hill, Whose summit, like all hills, is lost in vapour: For this men write, speak, preach, and heroes kill, And bards burn what they call their "midnight taper," To have, when the original is dust, A name, a wretched picture, and worse bust.

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I feel devoutly thankful to have been born fond of writing.

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I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

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If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.

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Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions.

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How are we to write The Russian novel in America As long as life goes so unterribly?

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I had neither expert aid nor advice. I studied no courses in writing; until a year or so ago, I never read a book by anybody advising writers how to write.

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It is also a warning. It is a warning that, if nobody reads the writing on the wall, man will be reduced to the state of the beast, whom he is shaming by his manners.

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Having books published is very destructive to writing.

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I'll write records until I'm dead. And then maybe even after that!

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Character is plot, plot is character.

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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

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There is no such thing as great writing - there is only great re-writing!

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It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.

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The little honesty that exists among authors is discernible in the unconscionable way they misquote from the writings of others.

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I'm always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere.

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