 | Henry Robinson Shipherd - 1926 - 376 pagina’s
...accumulated three folio volumes of notes. "The greater part of an author's time," said Dr. Johnson, "is spent in reading in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book." . . . Yet the labor of preparation is not, after all, more important than that of final revision. The... | |
 | 1927 - 202 pagina’s
... THE GIFT Mr. and Mrs. ; I • . ' "M \AI ASK ME ANOTHER! The Question Book "A man will turn over half a library to make one book." — SAMUEL JOHNSON. "We'll tell the cock-eyed world." — THE AUTHORS. cftsk (Me eftnotfiev! THE QUESTION... | |
 | 1862 - 884 pagina’s
...quarries. Johnson declared, putting the thing perhaps too mechanically, " The greater part of an author's time is spent in reading in order to write ; a man will turn over half a library to make one book." Addison collected three folios of materials before publishing the first number of the " Spectator."... | |
 | Alvin B. Kernan - 1989 - 384 pagina’s
...knowledge." To Boswell he stated the dependence of the writer on the books he reads even more forcefully. "The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in...man will turn over half a library to make one book." The great reader was also a collector of books, who wrote a proposal and a number of learned bibliographical... | |
 | Lillian Watson - 1988 - 356 pagina’s
...challenge of the times . . . and the problems of his own personal life. m Samuel Johnson once said, "A man will turn over half a library to make one book." Several libraries were turned over, thousands of books and papers were searched, for the material that... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 pagina’s
...acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it. Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) English prime minister The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading,...man will turn over half a library to make one book. Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English author, lexicographer All books are either dreams or swords,... | |
 | James D. O'Donnell - 1990 - 316 pagina’s
...is the work of countless previous authors, encyclopaedists and lexicographers. When Dr Johnson said: 'A man will turn over half a library to make one book' one would surely be forgiven for assuming that he — great dictionarymaker that he was — was thinking... | |
 | Randall Kenan - 1992 - 364 pagina’s
...RIGHT REVEREND JAMES MALACHAI GREEN Abridged and Edited, with introduction by REGINALD GREGORY KAIN The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading,...man will turn over half a library to make one book. Samuel Johnson, April 6, 1775 for RANDY PAGE and NELL PAINTER Besides these Soveraign Powers, Divine,... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pagina’s
...LL.D., vol. 10, ed. Sir John Hawkins (1 787) and Works of Samuel Johnson, Yale Edition, vol. 10. 23 The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading,...man will turn over half a library to make one book. SAMUEL JOHNSON, (1709-1784) British author, lexicographer. Quoted in James Boswell, Life of Dr. lohnson,... | |
 | Kathryn L. Johnson - 1998 - 184 pagina’s
...explore, wonder, and learn. But most of all, simply enjoy! Kathryn Lee Johnson Editor Finding Ideas The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading,...man will turn over half a library to make one book. —Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) / always write a good first line, but I have trouble in writing the others.... | |
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I made a calculation, that if I should write but a page a day, at the same rate, I should, in ten years, write nine volumes in folio, of an ordinary size and print. 
