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Quote DB :: Authors :: W. Somerset Maugham :: View Quote View Quote "There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are." - Copy to Clipboard   --  W. Somerset Maugham Listed in: Writing Add Quote To Your Quote List   Rating: 4.6  Rate Quote 10 votes submitted Your Name: Friend's Email: Sponsored Links Top 5 quotes from W. Somerset Maugham "The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit." "It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it." "Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five." "Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it." "The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind." Top 5 quotes from Writing "Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets." "Advice to young writers who want to get ahead without annoying delays: don’t write about Man, write about 'a' man." "No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader." "Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special." "If I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud."

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