Famous quotes containing the words viscount and/or maugham:
“When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change.”
—Lucius Cary Falkland, 2nd Viscount (1610–1643)
“No one can write a best seller by trying to. He must write with complete sincerity; the clichés that make you laugh, the hackneyed characters, the well-worn situations, the commonplace story that excites your derision, seem neither hackneyed, well worn nor commonplace to him.... The conclusion is obvious: you cannot write anything that will convince unless you are yourself convinced. The best seller sells because he writes with his heart’s blood.”
—W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1966)