'If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write.'
Quotes by Somerset Maugham
'The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.'
'I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all, they are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.'