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Writer Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
- A writer need not devour a whole sheep in order to know what mutton tastes like, but he must at least eat a chop. Unless…
- Writing is a wholetime job: no professional writer can afford only to write when he feels like it.
- It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.
- The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.
- The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
- As we grow older we become more conscious of the complexity, incoherence, and unreasonableness of human beings; this indeed is the only excuse that offers…
- The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement…
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