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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... tell you . 27 YOUNG persons , who are anxious to write , sometimes pay me the compliment of asking me to tell them of certain books necessary for them to read . I do . They seldom read them , for they seem to have little curiosity ...
... tell you . 27 YOUNG persons , who are anxious to write , sometimes pay me the compliment of asking me to tell them of certain books necessary for them to read . I do . They seldom read them , for they seem to have little curiosity ...
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... tell you it's a Roman copy and if I tell you a thing it is so ) ; but they were all agreed about this , that they burned with a hard , gem - like flame . I was too shy to tell them that I had written a novel and was half - way through ...
... tell you it's a Roman copy and if I tell you a thing it is so ) ; but they were all agreed about this , that they burned with a hard , gem - like flame . I was too shy to tell them that I had written a novel and was half - way through ...
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William Somerset Maugham. plays . The story they tell may be hackneyed , the dialogue commonplace and the characterisation ordinary , they succeed notwithstanding because they have the essential , though ... tell may be hackneyed, ...
William Somerset Maugham. plays . The story they tell may be hackneyed , the dialogue commonplace and the characterisation ordinary , they succeed notwithstanding because they have the essential , though ... tell may be hackneyed, ...
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