A Writer's NotebookFilled with keen observations, autobiographical notes, and the seeds of many of Maugham's greatest works, A Writer's Notebook is a unique and exhilarating look into a great writer's mind at work. From nearly five decades, Somerset Maugham recorded an intimate journal. In it we see the budding of his incomparable vision and his remarkable career as a writer. Covering the years from his time as a youthful medical student in London to a seasoned world traveler around the world, it is playful, sharp witted, and always revealing. Undoubtedly one of his most significant works, A Writer's Notebook is a must for Maugham fans and anyone interested in the creative process. |
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... feeling one has when one reads him . This may be why his style has neither swing nor vigour . For my part , I think to keep copious notes is an excellent practice , and I can only regret that a natural indolence has prevented me from ...
... feeling one has when one reads him . This may be why his style has neither swing nor vigour . For my part , I think to keep copious notes is an excellent practice , and I can only regret that a natural indolence has prevented me from ...
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... feeling for literature . He has never had an original idea in his life , but he is a sensitive and keensighted observer of the obvious . How happy life would be if an undertaking retained to the end the delight of its beginning , if the ...
... feeling for literature . He has never had an original idea in his life , but he is a sensitive and keensighted observer of the obvious . How happy life would be if an undertaking retained to the end the delight of its beginning , if the ...
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... knowledge that some of the other members of the Cabinet are in disagreement with him , and it is thought that they may hinder him from doing . anything . There is a general feeling that if England [ 8 ] A WRITER'S NOTEBOOK 1894 ...
... knowledge that some of the other members of the Cabinet are in disagreement with him , and it is thought that they may hinder him from doing . anything . There is a general feeling that if England [ 8 ] A WRITER'S NOTEBOOK 1894 ...
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... feeling between the French and Germans before the war of 1870 with the feeling now . We talked of Crécy and Agincourt , of Pitt and Wellington . There was a long discussion about the first movements of the war : we talked about what ...
... feeling between the French and Germans before the war of 1870 with the feeling now . We talked of Crécy and Agincourt , of Pitt and Wellington . There was a long discussion about the first movements of the war : we talked about what ...
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... that you will have this feeling for someone quite unworthy of it . This kind of friendship , though sex has no active part in it , is really akin to love : it arises in the same way , and it is not [ 11 ] A WRITER'S NOTEBOOK.
... that you will have this feeling for someone quite unworthy of it . This kind of friendship , though sex has no active part in it , is really akin to love : it arises in the same way , and it is not [ 11 ] A WRITER'S NOTEBOOK.
Contents
Section 15 | 196 |
Section 16 | 227 |
Section 17 | 243 |
Section 18 | 247 |
Section 19 | 266 |
Section 20 | 276 |
Section 21 | 305 |
Section 22 | 319 |
Section 9 | 89 |
Section 10 | 90 |
Section 11 | 99 |
Section 12 | 163 |
Section 13 | 189 |
Section 14 | 194 |
Section 23 | 320 |
Section 24 | 331 |
Section 25 | 332 |
Section 26 | 348 |
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