Blunders Quote by W. Somerset Maugham

It was beyond embarrassing or humiliating or even mortifying. It was ego-slaying!

— Wendelin Van Draanen

There's so much of, it could have been a very critical examination of what happened, and really the emotional lives of the people involved…

— Jeremy Northam

I began to see, again and again, stories that were first confusing and second where the emotional impact was muted because the big scene…

— Alice Mattison

Nothing significant was reallysaid, Though all agreed the talk superb....

— Philip Larkin

What happened was very sad. Mr. Lacey told the staff that he was disappointed and appalled that the front of the book was all…

— Sydney Schanberg

It was for the sake of what had been, rather than what was.

— Jane Austen

Nobody had noticed, nobody had paid attention, but, as usual, the essential part of the matter had been settled before the story had begun,…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Nothing was quite like it was supposed to be.

— Maureen Johnson

I was mortified by the prospect of becoming hopelessly trapped in someone else's story.

— Lionel Shriver

And, because there was an honesty about all that was going on. It connected with the people in the street.

— Ben E. King

It seemed out of place to think of consequences during the fiesta.

— Ernest Hemingway

It was too nerve-wracking, a shocking spectacle, like seeing an old, calm friend go insane.

— John Steinbeck