The Summing Up, Part 354, Volume 1The reminiscences of the author's lifetime; insight on life and art; education, discipline and training of a writer. |
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Page 26
I made up my mind that this was the perfect way to write and I started to work on
him in the same way as I had done with Jeremy Taylor. I chose The Tale of a Tub.
It is said that when the Dean re-read it in his old age he cried: 'What genius I ...
I made up my mind that this was the perfect way to write and I started to work on
him in the same way as I had done with Jeremy Taylor. I chose The Tale of a Tub.
It is said that when the Dean re-read it in his old age he cried: 'What genius I ...
Page 105
It is the perfect audience. After each act the director reads out the remarks he has
jotted down. There is a row with the electrician who, with nothing to do but attend
to his switches, has turned on the wrong ones; and the author is indignant with ...
It is the perfect audience. After each act the director reads out the remarks he has
jotted down. There is a row with the electrician who, with nothing to do but attend
to his switches, has turned on the wrong ones; and the author is indignant with ...
Page 220
Indeed, sometimes you might think that the best novelist is the essayist, and that
the only perfect short stories have been written by Charles Lamb and Hazlitt. But
the delight in listening to stories is as natural to human nature as the delight in ...
Indeed, sometimes you might think that the best novelist is the essayist, and that
the only perfect short stories have been written by Charles Lamb and Hazlitt. But
the delight in listening to stories is as natural to human nature as the delight in ...
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