id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 27621 Duchess How I write my novels .txt text/plain 1450 81 83 (1855?-1897) "How I write my novels" (from Mrs Hungerford's inspirations that oft-times are slow to come. word in a crowded drawing-room, a thought rising from the book in hand, very long time ago; but I have always hated the words 'waste paper' manuscript went to light the fire of that heartless editor. rescued from the misty depths of the mind, the characters come and thoughts; at night, my saddest. come--it is at such moments as these that my mind lays hold of the novel now in hand, and works away at it with a vigour, against which brain wanderings of one wakeful night three of four chapters are As a rule, too, I never give more time to my writing than two hours out mind are as the wild sprays sent heavenward at times by a calm and slumbering ocean--a promise of the power that reigns in the now quiet ./cache/27621.txt ./txt/27621.txt