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If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be hanging there.

If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be hanging there.

Anton Chekhov

Wall, Writing, Rifles

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

An expansive life, one not constrained by four walls, requires as well an expansive pocket.

Anton Chekhov

Wall, Four, Pockets

Letter to A. S. Suvorin, March 11, 1892.

If you look at anything long enough, say just that wall in front of you - it will come out of that wall.

Anton Chekhov

Wall, Writing, Long

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