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 106
... easy camaraderie , the hurried lunch at a restaurant round the corner with a member of the cast and the cup of ... easily to my pen . It has interested me to watch way in which a part grows in the actor's hands from the first lifeless ...
... easy camaraderie , the hurried lunch at a restaurant round the corner with a member of the cast and the cup of ... easily to my pen . It has interested me to watch way in which a part grows in the actor's hands from the first lifeless ...
Page 114
... easy to form dialogues than to contrive adventures . Looking through the old note - books in which from eighteen to twenty I wrote down scenes for the plays I had in mind I find the dialogue on the whole easy and probable . The jokes no ...
... easy to form dialogues than to contrive adventures . Looking through the old note - books in which from eighteen to twenty I wrote down scenes for the plays I had in mind I find the dialogue on the whole easy and probable . The jokes no ...
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... easy to shrug one's shoulders when one finds oneself described as a genius , but not so easy to be unconcerned when one is treated as a nincompoop . The history [ 228 ] that novelists have used to achieve this. But how ...
... easy to shrug one's shoulders when one finds oneself described as a genius , but not so easy to be unconcerned when one is treated as a nincompoop . The history [ 228 ] that novelists have used to achieve this. But how ...
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