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"There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are." -
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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."
"Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it."
"Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five."
"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."
"Fiction is the truth inside the lie."
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