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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I have always had more stories in my head than I ever had time to write . I have often heard writers complain that they wanted to write but had nothing to write about , and I remember one distinguished author telling me that she was ...
I have always had more stories in my head than I ever had time to write . I have often heard writers complain that they wanted to write but had nothing to write about , and I remember one distinguished author telling me that she was ...
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The technique of writing is no less difficult than that of the other arts and yet , because he can read and write a letter , there is a notion that anyone can write well enough to write a book . Writing seems now the favourite ...
The technique of writing is no less difficult than that of the other arts and yet , because he can read and write a letter , there is a notion that anyone can write well enough to write a book . Writing seems now the favourite ...
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He does well only to write to liberate his spirit of a subject that he has so long meditated that it burdens him and if he is wise he will take care to write only for the sake of his own peace . Perhaps the simplest way to break the ...
He does well only to write to liberate his spirit of a subject that he has so long meditated that it burdens him and if he is wise he will take care to write only for the sake of his own peace . Perhaps the simplest way to break the ...
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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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