Books and BipedsArgus Books, 1947 - 258 pages "In a word, 'Books and Bipeds' is for the most part a selection of paragraphs from my weekly book column in the "Chicago Sunday Tribune'..." -- foreword. |
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Page 48
... writers , I believe , require silence and isolation in quantity lots ; yet Jean Paul Richter , too , I have somewhere read , was happy in his writing only when the stir of the household was sounding around him— a cheerful banging of ...
... writers , I believe , require silence and isolation in quantity lots ; yet Jean Paul Richter , too , I have somewhere read , was happy in his writing only when the stir of the household was sounding around him— a cheerful banging of ...
Page 95
... writing game , " as it is easily called by those who know nothing about it , is not always a bed of roses for either husband or wife ; and perhaps that authors ' wives deserve what they get for marrying literary men . In honesty it ...
... writing game , " as it is easily called by those who know nothing about it , is not always a bed of roses for either husband or wife ; and perhaps that authors ' wives deserve what they get for marrying literary men . In honesty it ...
Page 212
... writing or reading aloud , in an automatic manner , while at the same time carrying on some other activity . Miss Stein reported that spontaneous writing became easy after a little practice , and is quoted as follows : " A phrase would ...
... writing or reading aloud , in an automatic manner , while at the same time carrying on some other activity . Miss Stein reported that spontaneous writing became easy after a little practice , and is quoted as follows : " A phrase would ...
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