 Sarah Orne Jewett, who had read all of my early stories and had very clear and definite opinions about them -and about where my work fell short. She said, 'Write it as it is, don't try to make it like this or that. You can't do it in anybody else's way...  The Women who Make Our Novels - Pagina 259door Grant Martin Overton - 1918 - 393 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Fred Lewis Pattee - 1927 - 588 pagina’s
...detachment, objectivity. A turning point in her literary career came during her early period in the East: "I had the good fortune to meet Sarah Orne Jewett,...haunts the mind, that I love in Miss Jewett's own \york. I dedicated Q Pioneers! to her because I had talked over some of the characters with her, and... | |
 | Josephine Donovan - 2010 - 213 pagina’s
...this or that. You can't do it in anybody else's way — you will have to make a way of your own. . . . Don't try to write the kind of short story that this...— write the truth and let them take it or leave it."17 In other words, do not capitulate. Therefore, like Wharton, Gather wrestled with the problems... | |
 | Josephine Donovan - 1989 - 214 pagina’s
...this or that. You can't do it in anybody else's way—you will have to make a way of your own. . . . Don't try to write the kind of short story that this or that magazine wants—write the truth and let them take it or leave it." 17 In other words, do not capitulate. Therefore,... | |
 | Willa Cather - 2003 - 412 pagina’s
...but the unfashionable story of Nebraska immigrants was one she had wanted to write for a long time. "Don't try to write the kind of short story that this or that magazine wants," said Jewett. "Write the truth, and let them take it or leave it" (Böhlke 1 1). Gather met Jewett in... | |
 | Dan Wakefield - 1997 - 324 pagina’s
...feelings of a human being as he or she knows it; the kind of truth Willa Cather meant when she said "Don't try to write the kind of short story that this...write the truth, and let them take it or leave it." No writing is worthwhile, Cather told an interviewer, ifi' doesn't "cut pretty deep. . .the main thing... | |
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