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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Page 93
... tell you . xxvii Young persons , who are anxious to write , some- times 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 . xxvii Young persons , who are anxious to write , some- times 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 ...
Page 99
... 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 , gemlike flame . I was too shy to tell them that I had written a novel and was halfway through another ...
... 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 , gemlike flame . I was too shy to tell them that I had written a novel and was halfway through another ...
Page 219
... tell and it has interested me to tell it . To me it has been a sufficient object in itself . It has been my mis- fortune that for some time now a story has been despised by the intelligent . I have read a good many books on the art of ...
... tell and it has interested me to tell it . To me it has been a sufficient object in itself . It has been my mis- fortune that for some time now a story has been despised by the intelligent . I have read a good many books on the art of ...
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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