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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… — Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon
- I read books more than I go out. As a matter of fact, I get a little concerned about some of my… — Julie Bowen
- It is said Somerset Maugham traveled the world with a notebook to learn the essence of life and Kafka sat in a… — Unknown Author
- The modern writer who has influenced me most is W. Somerset Maugham . — George Orwell
- Somerset has a wonderful wildness about it - it hasn't been tamed. This is farming country, and there's a realness here -… — Anthony Head
- The writers I care about most and never grow tired of are: Shakespeare, Swift, Fielding, Dickens, Charles Reade, Flaubert and, among modern… — George Orwell
- 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
- I am, incidentally, the only writer to have received the Somerset Maugham award twice - the first time for my first novel,… — Martin Amis
- We have the highest authority for believing that the meek shall inherit the earth; though I have never found any particular corroboration… — F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead
- Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from the back of a tanker… — Roald Dahl
- I've got a farm in Somerset, and I think it's God's own country. I love it. — Kevin McCloud
- 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