Sixties Quote by W. Somerset Maugham Download Open image “The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.” — W. Somerset Maugham ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Sixties Trouble Trouble Young Writers Writers Sixties Writing Young Young writers
Writers obviously have to bear witness to the harsh face of the age. — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
There's not that many people from the sixties who have progressed as writers and are continuing on. They're out there. But I'm one of… — Creed Bratton Copy Share Image
And when you get an eminent journal like Time magazine complaining, as it often has, that to the young writers of today life seems… — William Styron Copy Share Image
I was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was going on,… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
There never was such an age in which so many people were able to write badly. — Israel Zangwill Copy Share Image
I just think its the changes that age brings. You slow down a little bit ... the writers are smart enough to write all… — James Gandolfini Copy Share Image
It's frightfully important for a writer to be his age, not to be younger or older than he is. One might ask, "What should… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Younger writers and smaller writers need to live and get by. They need to be paid. It has to be fair. — Nicola Roberts Copy Share Image
At this stage I am not involved with young adults as closely as many other writers. My children are grown up and my grandchildren… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the… — William Styron Copy Share Image
The idea of the writer/producer in television is much younger than people think it is. — Matt Nix Copy Share Image
“A man thinks it quite natural that he should fall out of love with a woman, but it never strikes him for a moment… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“A man's work reveals him. In social intercourse he gives you the surface that he wishes the world to accept, but in his book… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither. We must be very humble. We… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“There is no more merit in having read a thousand books than in having ploughed a thousand fields.” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“I wanted to live again and again. I was willing to accept every sort of life, no matter what its pain and sorrow; I… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“His love became a prison from which he longed to escape, but he had not the strength merely to open the door-that was all… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I did not believe him capable of love. That is an emotion in which tenderness is an essential part, but Strickland had no tenderness… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
There was a cultural war going on, the '60s was going on. All the film critics were square. — John Waters Copy Share Image
I feel that if your soul was branded by the sixties, you never lost the brand. It's like going into a nightclub and having… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
In the 60s there were a lot of things which were anarchistic. May-June '68 was riddled by anarchistic sentiments, dreams and ideals, but insofar… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
I was initially recruited while I was in business school back in the late sixties by the National Security Agency, the nation's largest and… — John Perkins Copy Share Image
Many things happened in the sixties, but the period is no more significant, better, or more 'political' than today. It's time to turn the… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
“If you'll excuse a brief history lesson: most people didn't experience 'the sixties' until the seventies. Which meant, logically, that most people in the… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I've liked country music for forever. And Buck Owens is just one of many country guitarists I like. I think Buck's Sixties records are… — Buzz Osborne Copy Share Image
In the Sixties, it was mods and rockers, and hippies and casuals, whereas in the early Eighties, there was Goths, punks, mods, skinheads, New… — Shane Meadows Copy Share Image
After world war all we got was a lot of conformity, and conservatism and when I was in college at the university of Illinois… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
I was involved in the Great Folk Music scare back in the sixties, when it almost caught on. — Martin Mull Copy Share Image
The Sixties was a time of breaking down class barriers, although I think class still exists today in some areas. — David Bailey Copy Share Image
Obviously, the Sixties was a time when everyone wanted to experiment, and then everything became very formulated and corporate, so artists tended to get… — Steve Winwood Copy Share Image
