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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... sense of the dramatic to make it something of my own . My early notebooks were largely filled with pages of dialogue for plays that I never wrote , and these because I thought they could interest no one , I have also left out , but I ...
... sense of the dramatic to make it something of my own . My early notebooks were largely filled with pages of dialogue for plays that I never wrote , and these because I thought they could interest no one , I have also left out , but I ...
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... sense and a Cockney humour . She got a lot of fun out of her lodgers . The following are notes I made of her conversation . Mrs. Foreman went to a concert at the Parish Hall last night with Miss Brown who lets lodgings at number 14. Mr ...
... sense and a Cockney humour . She got a lot of fun out of her lodgers . The following are notes I made of her conversation . Mrs. Foreman went to a concert at the Parish Hall last night with Miss Brown who lets lodgings at number 14. Mr ...
Page 14
... sense of guilt in him when he follows his natural instincts , and a feeling of resentment when others , even though not at his expense , follow theirs . If selfishness were not regarded as a vice no one would be more inconvenienced by ...
... sense of guilt in him when he follows his natural instincts , and a feeling of resentment when others , even though not at his expense , follow theirs . If selfishness were not regarded as a vice no one would be more inconvenienced by ...
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... sense to his life . The highest object in life , he said , is to bring out one's own personality and that one does by following one's instincts , by letting oneself be carried on the waves of human things and by submitting oneself to ...
... sense to his life . The highest object in life , he said , is to bring out one's own personality and that one does by following one's instincts , by letting oneself be carried on the waves of human things and by submitting oneself to ...
Page 20
... sense in the artist . What is beautiful to an artist today will be beautiful to all and sundry in ten years . Not so many years ago everyone would have said that nothing was more hideous than factory chimneys with black smoke belching ...
... sense in the artist . What is beautiful to an artist today will be beautiful to all and sundry in ten years . Not so many years ago everyone would have said that nothing was more hideous than factory chimneys with black smoke belching ...
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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