There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no... - W. Somerset Maugham

"The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you."

"We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to."

"What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?"

"Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul."

"Only a mediocre person is always at his best."