More from William Somerset Maugham

  1. In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
  2. The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
  3. If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
  4. There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
  5. Have common sense and stick to the point.
  6. Tolerance is another word for indifference.
  7. Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
  8. We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.

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