The Summing UpAutobiographical and confessional, and yet not, this is one of the most highly regarded expressions of a personal credo - both a classic avowal of an author's ideas and his craft. |
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... experience without which I could not write , but I have gone into it also because I wanted experience for its own sake . It did not seem to me enough only to be a writer . The pat- tern I had designed for myself insisted that I should ...
... experience without which I could not write , but I have gone into it also because I wanted experience for its own sake . It did not seem to me enough only to be a writer . The pat- tern I had designed for myself insisted that I should ...
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... experience . If my books had been refused one after the other I should have come before the public at last with work less imperfect . I regret that I had no one to guide me ; I might have been spared much misdirected effort . I knew a ...
... experience . If my books had been refused one after the other I should have come before the public at last with work less imperfect . I regret that I had no one to guide me ; I might have been spared much misdirected effort . I knew a ...
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... experience of authors to be accused of having drawn a lifelike portrait of a certain person when they had in mind someone quite different . Further , it is just chance whether the author chooses his models from persons with whom he is ...
... experience of authors to be accused of having drawn a lifelike portrait of a certain person when they had in mind someone quite different . Further , it is just chance whether the author chooses his models from persons with whom he is ...
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accept action actors admire ęsthetic amusing appearance artist asked audience beauty believe better character comedy common conscious course critic deal delight dialogue discover drama dramatist effect emotion English evil exciting existence experience feeling fiction forced French gave gift give Henry Arthur Jones Human Bondage humour ideas imagination instinct interest invention King's School knew Lady Frederick literature live Liza of Lambeth look matter Matthew Arnold Maugham means mind ness never notion novel novelist one's Painted Veil pattern perfect perhaps persons philosophers phrase picture play pleasure produced prose reader reason seemed sense short stories SOMERSET MAUGHAM sometimes sort soul spirit St Thomas's Hospital Stendhal success suppose tell theatre things thought tion told truth V. S. Pritchett verse Walter Pater wanted words write written wrote young youth