More quotes by W. Somerset Maugham

"The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill."
"The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you."
"Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul."
"We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to."
"Only a mediocre person is always at his best."