Maugham Quotes
10 quotes by 8 authors
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Writer Somerset Maugham, after his parents deaths, spent a few stultifying years in his uncle's vicarage. Later, in his teens at a boarding-school, having lost…
— Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon
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I read books more than I go out. As a matter of fact, I get a little concerned about some of my anti-social habits. I…
— Julie Bowen
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It is said Somerset Maugham traveled the world with a notebook to learn the essence of life and Kafka sat in a room for the…
— U. R. Ananthamurthy
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The modern writer who has influenced me most is W. Somerset Maugham .
— George Orwell
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The writers I care about most and never grow tired of are: Shakespeare, Swift, Fielding, Dickens, Charles Reade, Flaubert and, among modern writers, James Joyce,…
— George Orwell
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Somerset Maugham said that it took at least six human beings to make one fictional character. That is true of landscape as well, I think.…
— Mary Lee Settle
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I am, incidentally, the only writer to have received the Somerset Maugham award twice - the first time for my first novel, the second time…
— Martin Amis
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Maugham then offers the greatest advice anyone could give to a young author: "At the end of an interrogation sentence, place a question mark. You'd…
— Woody Allen
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We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character. --W. Somerset Maugham
— W. Somerset Maugham
Who Wrote These Maugham Quotes
8 authors contributed a total of 10 Maugham Quotes as follows: