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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111 In this book I am going to try to sort out my thoughts on the subjects that have chiefly interested me during the course of my life . But such conclusions as I have come to have drifted about my mind like the wreckage of a foundered ...
111 In this book I am going to try to sort out my thoughts on the subjects that have chiefly interested me during the course of my life . But such conclusions as I have come to have drifted about my mind like the wreckage of a foundered ...
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against which the author must be always on his guard , is that there is a sort of magic in the written word . The idea acquires substance by taking on a visible nature , and then stands in the way of its own clarification .
against which the author must be always on his guard , is that there is a sort of magic in the written word . The idea acquires substance by taking on a visible nature , and then stands in the way of its own clarification .
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It will show you what sort of speech and what sort of scene are effective . But I think the secret of playwriting can be given in two maxims : stick to the point and whenever you can , cut . The first of these demands a logical mind .
It will show you what sort of speech and what sort of scene are effective . But I think the secret of playwriting can be given in two maxims : stick to the point and whenever you can , cut . The first of these demands a logical mind .
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| Title | The Summing Up Volume 10 of Collected edition of the works of W. Somerset Maugham Works, William Somerset Maugham |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Arno Press, 1977 |
| Original from | The Ohio State University |
| Digitized | 18 May 2018 |
| ISBN | 0405078307, 9780405078309 |
| Length | 310 pages |
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