Word: writing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Less than half a century ago Anthony Trollope had published over fifty books, and when he died ten years later his record was in the neighborhood of sixty-five. Every morning he would get up at five o'clock to write his accustomed 2500 words before breakfast, for if he let a day go by without at least 5000 he considered that he was shirking his duty. His Pegasus was something in the nature of a plow-horse, who finally arrived at the goal of literary success by plugging away, until hard work made up for lack of speed...
...each manuscript must bear an assumed name, with a statement of the writer's academic standing, and must be accompanied by a sealed letter, containing his true name and superscribed with his assumed name. Every essay must be neatly and legibly written or typewritten. Essayists are at liberty to write on any one of the subjects which have been proposed in the years during which this prize has been offered, or to propose new subjects for the approval of the Council of the Dante Society...
...Gets Slapped" grew out of the vulgar misappropriation and misinterpretation of "The Life of Man". Andreyev saw no hope for man in the present state of civilization. He said so in "The Life of Man". His "The Life of Man" was a fine piece of writing, written in the newer means and methods of the theatre, written with the power and vigor that satiric truth and penetration can alone bring. It was written before "He Who Gets Slapped", and the unacknowledged adaptations of his "The Life of Man" that were used on other continental stages, coupled with domestic unhappiness, made...
Speaking informally before the members of the English 28 Club and their guests last night in Smith Halls Common Room, Mr. Basil King, the noted novelist, gave his answer to "Why Writers Write and Readers Read": "When I began to write, I thought that writers were superfluous and readers merely read to pass the time. I have since found out differently. Readers read to keep alive the lamp of their imagination, and writers write to feed that lamp...
...Basil King, the noted novelist, will speak on "Why Writers Write and Readers Read" at a meeting of the English 28 Club in the Smith Halls Common Room at 7.30 o'clock tonight. Mr. King, whose first book, "Griselds", was published in 1900, has since that time written many widely read novels such as, "Wild Olive", "The Street Called Straight", and "The Way Home...