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People do tell a writer things that they don't tell others. I don't know why, unless it is that having read one or two of his books they feel on peculiarly intimate terms with him; or it may be that they dramatize

People do tell a writer things that they don't tell others. I don't know why, unless it is that having read one or two of his books they feel on peculiarly intimate terms with him; or it may be that they dramatize themselves and, seeing themselves as it were as characters in a novel, are ready to be as open with him as they imagine the characters of his invention are.

W. Somerset Maugham

Book, Writing, Character

Because a man can write great works he is none the less a man.

W. Somerset Maugham

Writing, Greatness, Men

W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

There are men who are possessed by an urge so strong to do some particular thing that they can't help themselves, they've got to do it. They're prepared to sacrifice everything to satisfy their yearning.

W. Somerset Maugham

Strong, Writing, Sacrifice

"The Razor's Edge". Book by W. Somerset Maugham, 1944.