When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character. --W. Somerset Maugham — W Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The modern writer who has influenced me most is W. Somerset Maugham . — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“... how much less is the sense of obligation in those who receive favours than in those who grant them." Somerset Maugham” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“To write simply is as difficult as to be good.” Somerset Maugham.” — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. —SOMERSET MAUGHAM” — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
“The only important thing in a book is the meaning it has for you. —W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM” — Wendy Wax Copy Share Image
Discovered W. Somerset Maugham in about 5th grade. Didn't understand the plots, but loved the descriptions. — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. —W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM” — Wendy Wax Copy Share Image
It is said Somerset Maugham traveled the world with a notebook to learn the essence of life and Kafka sat in a… — U. R. Ananthamurthy Copy Share Image
Somebody asked Somerset Maugham about his place in the pantheon of writers, and he said, "I'm in the very front row of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter if I'm only to be gone four days, as in this case; I take six months' supply of reading… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
“It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are… — Christopher Nuttall Copy Share Image
“The whole experience reminded me of my own 'old lady' phase that I went through in high school while I was reading… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
It's a very obsessive profession that you need to stay obsessed to get anywhere, and it's very easy for us to get… — Joan Chen Copy Share Image
My friends, when I was young, were always older than I was, and I've always liked them. And I love old men… — Vivien Leigh Copy Share Image
“But like a boat with a twisted rudder, I kept coming back to the same place. I wasn't going anywhere. I was… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Up to a few years ago nearly all the literature about Oceania was written by papalagi and other outsiders. Our islands were… — Albert Wendt Copy Share Image
“There are so many dirty names for her that one rarely learns them all, even in one’s native language. There are dirty… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“Somerset Maugham wrote: “I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o’clock sharp.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am, incidentally, the only writer to have received the Somerset Maugham award twice - the first time for my first novel,… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.”… — Dennis Ward Copy Share Image
“Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams. W. Somerset Maugham” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we,… — W Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Someone once asked Somerset Maugham if he wrote on a schedule or only when struck by inspiration. “I write only when inspiration… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Somerset Maugham said that it took at least six human beings to make one fictional character. That is true of landscape as… — Mary Lee Settle Copy Share Image
Writer Somerset Maugham, after his parents deaths, spent a few stultifying years in his uncle's vicarage. Later, in his teens at a… — Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon Copy Share Image
Goethe said, "The author whom a lexicon can keep up with is worth nothing"; Somerset Maugham says that the finest compliment he… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
At the age of 12 I won the school prize for Best English Essay. The prize was a copy of Somerset Maugham's… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
Somerset Maugham ... wrote somewhere that "Nobody is any better than he ought to be."... I carried it along with me as… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I read books more than I go out. As a matter of fact, I get a little concerned about some of my… — Julie Bowen Copy Share Image
I don't know if you hear this often but I would say The Razor's Edge (loosely based on a great W. Somerset… — Lewis Schiff Copy Share Image
The writers I care about most and never grow tired of are: Shakespeare, Swift, Fielding, Dickens, Charles Reade, Flaubert and, among modern… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
