Amusing things to write, but I can't claim they're original".
He is linking to an extremely amusing chart about how to write for American theatre.
After Mr. Ross's death in 2003, Mr. Wallowitch continued to perform and to write amusing songs on virtually any subject that tickled his fancy.
White tried to laugh about all this — "the editor who could spot a dubious verb at forty paces, the critic who was saddened because my innocent tale of the quest for beauty failed to carry the overtones of monstrosity" — but then Malcolm Cowley, reviewing the book in the Times, proved skeptical, too: "Mr. White has a tendency to write amusing scenes instead of telling a story.
White tried to laugh about all this—"the editor who could spot a dubious verb at forty paces, the critic who was saddened because my innocent tale of the quest for beauty failed to carry the overtones of monstrosity"—but then Malcolm Cowley, reviewing the book in the Times, proved skeptical, too: "Mr. White has a tendency to write amusing scenes instead of telling a story.
If you're an English teacher this may be of help with creative writing as a class participation event or even drama class to write amusing scripts.
Dinner-party observation number two: Isn't it amusing how the critics have to write about one of their own - a critic who was often wrong and went mad.
About this time the Halbertsma brothers Eeltsje, Joast, and Tsjalling founded a movement known as "New Frisian Literature," and they went on to write an amusing collection of Romantic prose and poetry, Rimen en Teltsjes (1871; "Rhymes and Tales"), that stimulated the rise of a rich folk literature in the second half of the 19th century.
My partner [Mary Horlock, a former Tate curator, with whom he has two children] said to me: You used to write these amusing books [eg Why Do Women Write More Letters Than They Post?], and now it's all death and madness.
