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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 29
Page 34
... attention to these , you cannot pay attention at all . Your mind wanders . This kind of writing demands a subject that will suit it . It is surely out of place to write in the grand style of inconsiderable things . No one wrote in this ...
... attention to these , you cannot pay attention at all . Your mind wanders . This kind of writing demands a subject that will suit it . It is surely out of place to write in the grand style of inconsiderable things . No one wrote in this ...
Page 128
... attention of the audience , every incident must be subdued to the minor key . So it is very difficult to prevent the audience from feeling a certain monotony and because nothing , either incident or character , has been very forcibly ...
... attention of the audience , every incident must be subdued to the minor key . So it is very difficult to prevent the audience from feeling a certain monotony and because nothing , either incident or character , has been very forcibly ...
Page 130
... attention quickly wanders . The author must curb his natural desire to get the full value out of a scene or to let his characters display themselves in ample expression . Indications are enough . They will be seized . His dialogue must ...
... attention quickly wanders . The author must curb his natural desire to get the full value out of a scene or to let his characters display themselves in ample expression . Indications are enough . They will be seized . His dialogue must ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
accept action actors admire ęsthetic amusing artist asked audience beauty believe better character Chekov comedy common conscious course crasy critic deal delight dialogue discover drama dramatist effect emotion English evil excited existence experience eyes fact feeling fiction forced French gave George Meredith Gerald du Maurier gift give Goethe Henry Arthur Jones Human Bondage human nature humour ideas idiosyncrasy imagination important instinct interest invention Jack Straw knew knowledge Kuno Fischer Lady Frederick literature live Liza of Lambeth look matter Matthew Arnold meaning mind never notion novel novelist one's pattern perfect perhaps philosophers phrase picture play pleasure produced prose reader reason seemed sense sometimes sort soul speak spirit Stendhal story success suppose talent tell theatre things thought tion told truth Walter Pater wanted words write written wrote young youth