Books Quote by W. Somerset Maugham Download Open image ““There are three secrets to writing a novel. Unfortunately nobody knows what they are.”” — W. Somerset Maugham ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Nobody knows Novels Writing Writing process
“Every book contains a secret – even the writer doesn't always know what it is.” — Carla H. Krueger Copy Share Image
“Between the lines of every book the writer reveals their own secrets.” — Chloe Thurlow Copy Share Image
“These secrets are not secrets per se but are truths hidden from public view. I had to write this book. There had to be… — Rebecca Allard Copy Share Image
“Write what you know, and what do you know better than your own secrets?” — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
“A novel is just a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief.” — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“There is only one secret to great writing and that's great writing.” — Chloe Thurlow Copy Share Image
“Just like so many things in life, the secret to writing a book is just sticking with it. Put in the time and eventually… — Jeffrey Littorno Copy Share Image
“There are no such things as secrets only truths that have yet to be revealed.” — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
“First you're an unknown, then you write one book and you move up to obscurity.” — Martin Myers Copy Share Image
“The only secrets that are good are the ones with an ending. Keep surprises instead of secrets in your home.” — Carolyn Byers Ruch 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
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image