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 71
... novelists began to disclose the diversity that they had found in themselves or seen in others they were accused of maligning the human race . So far as I know the first novelist who did this with deliberate intention was Stendhal in Le ...
... novelists began to disclose the diversity that they had found in themselves or seen in others they were accused of maligning the human race . So far as I know the first novelist who did this with deliberate intention was Stendhal in Le ...
Page 95
... novelist is ill - advised to be too technical . The practice , which came into fashion in the nineties , of using a multitude of cant terms is tiresome . It should be possible to give verisimilitude without that , and atmosphere is ...
... novelist is ill - advised to be too technical . The practice , which came into fashion in the nineties , of using a multitude of cant terms is tiresome . It should be possible to give verisimilitude without that , and atmosphere is ...
Page 226
... novelist claims to be an artist and the artist does not copy life , he makes an arrangement out of it to suit his own purposes . Just as the painter thinks with his brush and paints the novelist thinks with his story ; his view of life ...
... novelist claims to be an artist and the artist does not copy life , he makes an arrangement out of it to suit his own purposes . Just as the painter thinks with his brush and paints the novelist thinks with his story ; his view of life ...
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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