Another piece of advice when you read proof cross out as many adjectives and adverbs as you can. You have so many modifiers that the reader has trouble understanding and gets worn out. It is comprehensible when I write 'The man sat on the grass,' becaus.
More Quotes from Anton Pavlovich Chekhov:
I am dying. I haven't drunk champagne for a long time.Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
My business is to be talented, that is, to be capable of selecting the important moments from the trivial ones.... It's about time for writers particularly those who are genuine artists to recognize that in this world you cannot figure out everything. Just have a writer who the crowds trust be courageous enough and declare that he does not understand everything, and that alone will represent a major contribution to the way people think, a long leap forward.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
I am writing a play which I probably will not finish until the end of November. I am writing it with considerable pleasure, though I sin frightfully against the conventions of the stage. It is a comedy with three female parts, six male, four acts, a landscape (view of the lake), lots of talk on literature, little action and tons of love.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
In my opinion it is not the writer's job to solve such problems as God, pessimism, etc his job is merely to record who, under what conditions, said or thought what about God or pessimism. The artist is not meant to be a judge of his characters and what they say his only job is to be an impartial witness. I heard two Russians in a muddled conversation about pessimism, a conversation that solved nothing all I am bound to do is reproduce that conversation exactly as I heard it. Drawing conclusions is up to the jury, that is, the readers. My only job is to be talented, that is, to know how to distinguish important testimony from unimportant, to place my characters in the proper light and speak their language.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
I will begin with what in my opinion is your lack of restraint. You are like a spectator in a theatre who expresses his enthusiasm so unrestrainedly that he prevents himself and others from hearing. That lack of restraint is particularly noticeable in the descriptions of nature with which you interrupt dialogues when one reads them, these descriptions, one wishes they were more compact, shorter, say two or three lines.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Ah, Caviar I keep on eating it, but can never get my fill. Like olives. It's a lucky thing it's not salty.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Advices QuotesBased on Keywords: adjectives, adverbs, becaus, comprehensible
In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation.
Edwin Way Teale
Scientists now believe that the primary biological function of breasts is to make males stupid.
Dave Barry
For, with pure water the inversion of cane sugar scarcely proceeds and subsequently it required very thorough, difficult studies before this effect and its order of magnitude were established.
Wilhelm Ostwald