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Write Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
- We do not write as we want, but as we can.
- 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,…
- Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and…
- Because a man can write great works he is none the less a man.
- Writing is a wholetime job: no professional writer can afford only to write when he feels like it.
- We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
- To write simply is as difficult as to be good.
- You cannot write unless you write much.
- I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which…
- I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp.
- 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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