SAMUEL BUTLER 1835-1902
The great novelist wrote: I always intend to read and generally do read ,what I write aloud to someone, almost anyone will do, but he should not be so clever that I am afraid of him. I feel weak places at once where I thought, as long as I read to myself only, that the passage was all right.
[Surely this is one of the reasons for manuscript evenings. EVB.] |
