W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.

W. Somerset Maugham

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: playwright
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: January 25, 1874 - December 16, 1965

Topics

GreatAmericanOnlyBeenNovel

Seriously, in America there are more big, curvy girls than there are little girls, and men love us, too.

Jill Scott

LoveMenLittle GirlsAmericaMore

If I lead the field in any way, it is in the area of curricula development, study guides and other teaching materials.

John Henrik Clarke

DevelopmentWayStudyLeadTeaching

When I was growing up, the top movies dealt with grown-up, complex emotions.

John Slattery

Growing UpEmotionsGrowingMovies

The good ending dismisses us with a touch of ceremony and throws a backward light of significance over the story just read. It makes it, as they say, or unmakes it. A weak beginning is forgettable, but the end of a story bulks in the reader's mind like the giant foot in a foreshortened photograph.

John Updike

GoodLightBeginningMindEnding

There's nothing but spirit in music. That's all it is. Yeah, there's a lot of intellectual elements to it, but no matter how you approach it, it's all spirit.

Amos Lee

MusicYouIntellectualNothingHow

Everything happens for a reason. Say if I don't get a role, it may be that it would have stopped me getting another role.

Sophie Lowe

MeSayReasonEverythingMayRole

The Southern Progress Fund will bring much-needed resources into multiple Southern states where Democrats must identify up-and-coming leaders and build a bench of strong potential candidates up and down the ballot.

Ronnie Musgrove

ProgressStrongPotentialDownBuild

Look, I don't care if anyone likes me when it comes to my work. But I can be massively insecure in other parts of my life.

Mary-Louise Parker

LifeWorkMeCareMy LifeLook

The rules or 'laws' of poetry are only tentative devices, an approximate scheme. There is no Sinaitic recipe for poetry, for the individual poem is the norm.

Louis MacNeice

PoetryRulesRecipeIndividualLaws

I think the value in books like mine, and a great number by other talented writers, is in the ability to bring dark subjects into the open where they are not so dark, where they can be talked about and considered by teens and adults alike.

Chris Crutcher

GreatValueThinkDarkAbilityOpen

Because I'm a woman, and I'm petite and blonde, you wouldn't believe how often I'm asked to model the clothes.

Phoebe Philo

WomanBelieveBlondeClothesYou

It's my mission to sue the MPAA and take them down. I don't know how to go about doing that. But to me, it seems like it's something that has to be taken care of.

Seth Rogen

MeCareDoingMissionDownKnow

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