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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... readers here and there to get out one or other of their books from a library ; but I think it is clear that neither of ... reader can take it or leave it . If he has the patience to read what follows he will see that there is only one ...
... readers here and there to get out one or other of their books from a library ; but I think it is clear that neither of ... reader can take it or leave it . If he has the patience to read what follows he will see that there is only one ...
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William Somerset Maugham. for the reader has nothing to do with the motive for which the author writes . He is only ... readers . Yet there is in writers a feeling that the public ought to like what they write and if their books do not ...
William Somerset Maugham. for the reader has nothing to do with the motive for which the author writes . He is only ... readers . Yet there is in writers a feeling that the public ought to like what they write and if their books do not ...
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... reader's interest . That is possibly the most im- portant thing in fiction , for it is by direction of inter- est that the author carries the reader along from page to page and it is by direction of interest that he induces in him the ...
... reader's interest . That is possibly the most im- portant thing in fiction , for it is by direction of inter- est that the author carries the reader along from page to page and it is by direction of interest that he induces in him the ...
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accept action actors admire æsthetic amusing appearance artist asked audience beauty believe better character comedy common conscious course critic deal delight dialogue discover drama dramatist emotion English evil exciting existence experience feeling fiction forced French gave gift give Henry Arthur Jones Human Bondage human nature 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