 | 1904 - 926 pàgines
...uttered, but because the pen is the only tool you can handle, your only means of earning bread! . . . With a lifetime of dread experience behind me, I say...living to "literature" commits no less than a crime. . . . Hateful as is the struggle for life In every form, this rough and tumble of the literary arena... | |
 | 1909 - 738 pàgines
...Innumerable are the men and women now writing for bread, who have not the least chance of finding in such a work a permanent livelihood. They took to writing,...living to literature commits no less than a crime." These are sad words, wrung from lips which had tasted disappointment and despair. Are they borne out... | |
 | 1902 - 664 pàgines
...and which we can easily believe to be spoken from the fulness of Mr. Gissing's experience: " The}' will hang on to the squalid profession, their earnings...living to ' literature ' commits no less than a crime." MISS Bertha Runklc, who two years ago achieved phenomenal success with her initial story, " The Helmet... | |
 | 1909 - 256 pàgines
...the danger of mixing thoughts of writing; with thoughts of bread and cheese. Here is his warning : " With a lifetime of dread experience behind me, I say that he 45 who encourages any young man or woman to look for his living to ' literature ' commits no less than... | |
 | 1909 - 948 pàgines
...Ryecroft, which he can procure anywhere for sixpence, lie sums up his own feelings in these grim words: "With a lifetime of dread experience behind me I say...would cry this truth aloud wherever men could hear." Mr. Gissing was possibly somewhat pessimistic at times, but there is, without doubt, truth in his pronouncement.... | |
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... then ? With a lifetime of dread experience behind me, I say that he who encourages any young man or woman to look for his living to literature, commits no less than a crime. 