In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations!
Anton ChekhovInstructing in cures, therapists always recommend that "each case be individualized." If this advice is followed, one becomes persuaded that those means recommended in textbooks as the best, means perfectly appropriate for the template case, turn out to be completely unsuitable in individual cases.
Anton ChekhovMedicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
Anton ChekhovThe time's come: there's a terrific thunder-cloud advancing upon us, a mighty storm is coming to freshen us up....It's going to blow away all this idleness and indifference, and prejudice against work....I'm going to work, and in twenty-five or thirty years' time every man and woman will be working.
Anton Chekhov