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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... character. Jules Renard was very honest, and he does not draw a pretty picture of himself in his Journal. He was malignant, cold, selfish, narrow, envious and ungrateful. His only redeeming feature was his love for his wife; she is the ...
... character. Jules Renard was very honest, and he does not draw a pretty picture of himself in his Journal. He was malignant, cold, selfish, narrow, envious and ungrateful. His only redeeming feature was his love for his wife; she is the ...
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... character as a starting point, but I have exercised imagination, invention and a 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 ...
... character as a starting point, but I have exercised imagination, invention and a 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 ...
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... wall, and I asked him why. He said there was so much more character in the back of things. Annandale: “I often think life must be quite diflerent to a man called Smith; it can have neither poetry nor [9] A WRITER'S NOTEBOOK.
... wall, and I asked him why. He said there was so much more character in the back of things. Annandale: “I often think life must be quite diflerent to a man called Smith; it can have neither poetry nor [9] A WRITER'S NOTEBOOK.
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... characters.” Yesterday evening he made an old joke and I told him I'd heard it a good many times before. Annandale ... character. I have drawn a slight portrait of her in a novel called Cakes and Ale, but I did no more than suggest her ...
... characters.” Yesterday evening he made an old joke and I told him I'd heard it a good many times before. Annandale ... character. I have drawn a slight portrait of her in a novel called Cakes and Ale, but I did no more than suggest her ...
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... character, sensibility and a restless mind, then your friendship will grow stronger, and you will have a relationship as delightful in its way as the other friendship of physical attraction. It is conceivable that these two friendships ...
... character, sensibility and a restless mind, then your friendship will grow stronger, and you will have a relationship as delightful in its way as the other friendship of physical attraction. It is conceivable that these two friendships ...
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