List of quotes from W. Somerset Maugham
"There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are."
by W. Somerset Maugham
"Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young."
by W. Somerset Maugham
"Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers."
by The Moon and Sixpence W. Somerset Maugham
"Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem."
by The Moon and Sixpence W. Somerset Maugham