Quotes by Maugham, W. Somerset

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death >>

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does t >>

Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's >>

Quotations about Writers and Writing

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. >>

Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is >>

It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How >>

The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.

Maugham, W. Somerset