Word: writings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...changing the public's opinion of him. It is true not only of writers. The clown is forever wanting to play poet. The great decision that many writers, young and old, must make, do make, is to throw over everything in favor of a career of purely creative writing. The metamorphosis of writing from avocation to vocation is apt to involve many pains, bodily as well as mental. I know one boy who has given up the life of a sailor to write poetry. He goes without meals to carry out his ambition. Another, unwilling to let his wife...
Every member of the class of 1928 is eligible to compete. One man may write both the words and music, or two or more may combine. The song should be not longer than eight lines, preferable without a refrain, Dr. Wright announced. It ought to have a light, catchy, easily sung air in the nature of a football song...
...qualities of good verse, according to the standards of his day, should perform creditably. The present generation, for example, has been trained to recognize the terseness and restraint that makes good free verse without destroying its poetic connotation. It can therefore assert with confidence that Carl Sandberg did not write such lines...
...thing that Mr. Paine could understand least in the habits of some of the new writers was their ability to put things together in such a slapdash fashion. For him, it is necessary to gather material, to digest it, to think about the finished product as a whole. To write a biography is the work of several years, not of a few weeks. He works in the mornings, or walks, or plays pool with the Editor of St. Nicholas: he considers pool his exercise. His reading is done before he sleeps at night and early in the morning. Driving...
...young man wants to write. His family fly into rages. With the assistance of a young visitor and a legal technicality, the young man snatches the family purse-strings. He wriggles triumphantly from the bottom to the top of the family tree...