Quotes by Maugham, W. Somerset

American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that Engl >>

You can do anything in this world if you are prepares to take the cons >>

Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soo >>

Quotations about Fiction

All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual. >>

Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence -- a lot passes y >>

No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is >>

For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial and significant creatures of fiction than with the irrational and shadowy figures of real life.

Maugham, W. Somerset