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I began to write better ; I did not write well . I wrote stiffly and self - consciously . I tried to get a pattern into my sentences , but did not see that the pattern was evident . I took care how I placed my words , but did not ...
I began to write better ; I did not write well . I wrote stiffly and self - consciously . I tried to get a pattern into my sentences , but did not see that the pattern was evident . I took care how I placed my words , but did not ...
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He learnt to write sentences that fall away on the ear with a misty languor and it delighted him so much that he could never have enough of it . He did not escape monot- ony . It is like the sound of water lapping a shingly beach ...
He learnt to write sentences that fall away on the ear with a misty languor and it delighted him so much that he could never have enough of it . He did not escape monot- ony . It is like the sound of water lapping a shingly beach ...
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I have always had more stories in my head than I ever had time to write . I have often heard writers complain that they wanted to write but had nothing to write about , and I remember one distin- guished author telling me that she was ...
I have always had more stories in my head than I ever had time to write . I have often heard writers complain that they wanted to write but had nothing to write about , and I remember one distin- guished author telling me that she was ...
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Publisher | W. Heinemann, 1938 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 11 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 0434456101, 9780434456109 |
| Length | 317 pages |
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