“Why d’you read then?” “Partly for pleasure, because it’s a habit and I’m just as uncomfortable if I don’t read as if… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The novel may stimulate you to think. It may satisfy your aesthetic sense. It may arouse your moral emotions. But if it… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I never met an author who admitted that people did not buy his book because it was dull. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: When you are reconciled to the fact that… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“His habit of reading isolated him: it became such a need that after being in company for some time he grew tired… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“The disadvantages and dangers of the author’s calling are offset by an advantage so great as to make all its difficulties, disappointments,… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“In the week I promised myself I should naturally read, for to the habitual reader reading is a drug of which he… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The author always loads his dice, but he must never let the reader see that he has done so, and by the… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Some people read for instruction, which is praiseworthy, and some for pleasure, which is innocent, but not a few read from habit,… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Heaven knows what pains the author has been at, what bitter experience he has endured and what heartache suffered, to give some… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“A man thinks it quite natural that he should fall out of love with a woman, but it never strikes him for a moment… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“A man's work reveals him. In social intercourse he gives you the surface that he wishes the world to accept, but in his book… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither. We must be very humble. We… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“There is no more merit in having read a thousand books than in having ploughed a thousand fields.” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“I wanted to live again and again. I was willing to accept every sort of life, no matter what its pain and sorrow; I… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“His love became a prison from which he longed to escape, but he had not the strength merely to open the door-that was all… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I did not believe him capable of love. That is an emotion in which tenderness is an essential part, but Strickland had no tenderness… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
