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Characters Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
- No one can write a best seller by trying to. He must write with complete sincerity; the clichés that make you laugh, the hackneyed characters,…
- You can never know enough about your characters
- If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write.
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