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— Max Beerbohm, English essayist, parodist and caricaturist (20 May 1956), on being asked by his wife if he had had a good sleep "Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers." [12]: 25 [23] — Walter de la Mare, English author (22 June 1956), when asked if he wanted some fruit or flowers "75-Hotel. I'm going into the water." [271]
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Collaboration between documentary writers and photographers United Kingdom: Miles Morland Foundation Writing Scholarship: Miles Morland Foundation: African writers to enable them write a fiction or non-fiction book in English language United States: New York State Writers Hall of Fame: Empire State Center for the Book
Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...
The Elements of Style (also called Strunk & White) is a style guide for formal grammar used in American English writing. The first publishing was written by William Strunk Jr. in 1918, and published by Harcourt in 1920, comprising eight "elementary rules of usage," ten "elementary principles of composition," "a few matters of form," a list of 49 "words and expressions commonly misused," and a ...
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English-American author [19] Colm de Bhailís: 1796–1906: 109: Irish poet, songwriter and stonemason [20] H.J. Blackham: 1903–2009: 105: British humanist author and philosopher [21] Lesley Blanch: 1904–2007: 102: English author and fashion critic [22] Ronald Blythe: 1922–2023: 100: English writer [23] Ralph de Boissière: 1907–2008: ...
This is a partial list of 20th-century writers. This list includes notable artists, authors, philosophers, playwrights, poets, scientists and other important and noteworthy contributors to literature. The two most basic written literary categories include fiction and non fiction