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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 distinguished 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 distinguished author telling me that she was ...
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The technique of writing is no less difficult than that of the other arts and yet , because he can read and write a letter , there is a notion that anyone can write well enough to write a book . Writing seems now the favourite ...
The technique of writing is no less difficult than that of the other arts and yet , because he can read and write a letter , there is a notion that anyone can write well enough to write a book . Writing seems now the favourite ...
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He does well only to write to liberate his spirit of a subject that he has so long meditated that it burdens him and if he is wise he will take care to write only for the sake of his own peace . Perhaps the simplest way to break the ...
He does well only to write to liberate his spirit of a subject that he has so long meditated that it burdens him and if he is wise he will take care to write only for the sake of his own peace . Perhaps the simplest way to break the ...
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Publisher | Literary Guild of America, 1938 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 26 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 310 pages |
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