Anton Chekhov Quotes About Guns

Quotes about: Guns

• If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.

  Anton Chekhov

  Gun, Use, Firsts

• If there is a gun hanging on the wall in the first act, it must fire in the last.

  Anton Chekhov

  Art, Wall, Gun

• If there's a gun on the wall in act one, scene one, you must fire the gun by act three, scene two. If you fire a gun in act three, scene two, you must see the gun on the wall in act one, scene one.

  Anton Chekhov

  Wall, Book, Gun

• My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying . . . one must ruthlessly suppress everything that is not concerned with the subject. If, in the first chapter, you say there is a gun hanging on the wall, you should make quite sure that it is going to be used further on in the story.

  Anton Chekhov

  Wall, Lying, Gun

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