The Writer, Band 25The Writer, 1913 |
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
88 Broad street advertising aged American Review April Arnold Bennett ARTICLES IN PERIODICALS artistic August Bellman Bookman Boston cent Century character Chicago Company copies critic CURRENT LITERARY TOPICS David Claridge died dollars dramatic edition editor Ellis Parker Butler England English fiction George girl GOSSIP ABOUT AUTHORS Harper's Magazine Harper's Weekly Henry idea interest John Joseph Pulitzer Journal July league letter Lippincott's lished lisher LITERARY ARTICLES literature living London manu manuscript Miss Monthly months never newspaper North American Review novel novelist Oscar Wilde paper payment PERSONAL GOSSIP play plot poem poet poetry popular portrait printed prize publication Reader remittance Richard Burton Robert ROBERT COLLYER royalties Saturday Evening Post says sent serial short story single effect style success thing thought tion verse Weekly William woman words Writer Publishing written wrote York York Sun zine
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 133 - ... of fortune, albeit in an extreme degree, or on the other to boldly envisage adverse conditions in the prospect of eventually bringing them to a conclusion. The condition of sleep is similar to, if not indistinguishable from, that of death; and with the addition of finality the former might be considered identical with the latter: so that in this connection it might be argued with regard to sleep that, could the addition be effected, a termination would be put to the endurance of a multiplicity...
Seite 99 - My mind presents just such an assemblage of disjointed specimens of history, ancient and modern ; scraps of poetry picked up from Shakespeare, Cowper, Wordsworth, and Milton ; newspaper topics ; morsels of Addison and Bacon, Latin verbs, geometry, entomology, and chemistry; Reviews and metaphysics, — all arrested and petrified and smothered by the fast-thickening everyday accession of actual events, relative anxieties, and household cares and vexations.
Seite 124 - One reason why a play is easier to write than a novel." That fetched me. I did not want to know "one reason" for so outrageous a stroke of novelist's bluff. But the impetus of my reading carried me on, in spite of the shock; and so I learnt that this one reason is "that a play is shorter than a novel.
Seite 22 - ... interest in writing English. Some little kink in my mind had always made the writing of prose very interesting to me. "I began first to write literary articles, criticisms, and so forth, and presently short imaginative stories in which I made use of the teeming suggestions of modern science. There is a considerable demand for this sort of fiction in Great Britain and America, and my first book, The Time Machine...
Seite 105 - The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people that can write know anything. In general an author has always lived in a room, has read books, has cultivated science, is acquainted with the style and sentiments of the best authors, but he is out of the way of employing his own eyes and ears. He has nothing to hear and nothing to see. His life is a vacuum.
Seite 133 - To be, or the contrary? Whether the former or the latter be preferable would seem to admit of some difference of opinion; the answer in the present case being of an affirmative or of a negative character according as to whether one elects on the one hand to mentally suffer the disfavour of fortune, albeit in an extreme degree, or on the other to boldly envisage adverse conditions in the prospect of eventually bringing them to a conclusion.
Seite 182 - Co., inasmuch as they have also indorsed the very poor paper of . If Whitman had been able (he was not able, for he tried it and failed) to put his thought into artistic verse, he would have attracted little or no attention, perhaps. Where he is fine, he is fine in precisely the way of conventional poets. The greater bulk of his writing is neither prose nor verse, and certainly it is not an improvement on either.
Seite 22 - Englishspeaking world not merely a moderate financial independence, but the utmost freedom of movement and intercourse. A poor man is lifted out of his narrow circumstances into familiar and unrestrained intercourse with a great variety of people. He sees the world; if his work excites interest, he meets philosophers, scientific men, soldiers, artists, professional men, politicians of all sorts, the rich, the great, and he may make such use of them as he can.
Seite 182 - ... shoulder-blades or some abnormal organ to a well-regulated corpse. But he will never be regarded in the same light as Villon.