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 179
... reader has nothing to do with the motive for which the author writes . He is only concerned with the result . Many ... readers . Yet there is in writers a feeling that the public ought to like what they write and if their books do not ...
... reader has nothing to do with the motive for which the author writes . He is only concerned with the result . Many ... readers . Yet there is in writers a feeling that the public ought to like what they write and if their books do not ...
Page 227
... reader to want to know what happens to the people in whom his interest has been aroused and the plot is the means by ... reader's interest . That is possibly the most important thing in fiction , for it is by direction of interest that ...
... reader to want to know what happens to the people in whom his interest has been aroused and the plot is the means by ... reader's interest . That is possibly the most important thing in fiction , for it is by direction of interest that ...
Page 228
... reader so firmly along the line of the simple story that he does not stop to reflect that Elinor is a prig , Marianne a fool , and the three men lifeless dummies . Flaubert , aiming at a rigid objectivity , directs the reader's interest ...
... reader so firmly along the line of the simple story that he does not stop to reflect that Elinor is a prig , Marianne a fool , and the three men lifeless dummies . Flaubert , aiming at a rigid objectivity , directs the reader's interest ...
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