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Habits in
writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as
soon as they cease to be advantageous.
-- W. Somerset Maugham
1874-1965, British Novelist,
Playwright
It's very hard
to be a gentleman and a writer.
-- W. Somerset Maugham
1874-1965, British Novelist,
Playwright
The trouble
with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
-- W. Somerset Maugham
1874-1965, British Novelist,
Playwright
The writer is
more concerned to know than to judge.
-- W. Somerset Maugham
1874-1965, British Novelist,
Playwright
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There are
three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately no one
knows what they are.
-- W. Somerset Maugham
1874-1965, British Novelist,
Playwright
The need to
express oneself in writing springs from a mal-adjustment to
life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the
grown man) cannot resolve in action. Those to whom action
comes as easily as breathing rarely feel the need to break
loose from the real, to rise above, and describe it... I do
not mean that it is enough to be maladjusted to become a
great writer, but writing is, for some, a method of
resolving a conflict, provided they have the necessary
talent.
-- Andre Maurois
1885-1967, French Writer
You enter a
state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and
accept that even if your declared intention is to justify
the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your
readers rather more in Satan.
-- Ian Mcewan
1948-, British Author
You expect far
too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a
good country breakfast: what we want is something simple,
but nourishing to the imagination. Hold the philosophy, hold
the adjectives, just give us a plain subject and verb and
perhaps a wholesome, nonfattening adverb or two.
-- Larry Mcmurtry
1936-, American Screenwriter,
Novelist, Essayist
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