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Tags: W. Somerset Maugham Quotes, Writing Quotes
The Ability To Quote Is A Serviceable Substitute For Wit.
If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
Maybe that’s just what happens; you start out wanting to change the world through language, and end up thinking it’s enough to tell a few jokes.
It is a most remarkable thing. I sat down with the full intention of writing something clever and original; but for the life of me I can’t think of anything clever and original–at least, not at this moment.
I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
Writing about vampires doesn’t make me a bloodsucker; writing about homicidal maniacs doesn’t mean I’m a maniacal murderer myself. Intellectual curiosity is a far cry from obsession.
Until the lion learns how to write every story will glorify the hunter.
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