W. Somerset Maugham on Books
Browse 6 quotations attributed to W. Somerset Maugham, catalogued under books, with dates where available.
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Attributed to W. Somerset Maugham, entry #3213: "To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life."
Attributed to W. Somerset Maugham, entry #76870: "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."
6 Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham on Books
"To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life."
"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."
"Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long."
"When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me."
"It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is."
"What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature."