The novel may stimulate you to think. It may satisfy your aesthetic sense. It may arouse your moral emotions. But if it does not entertain you it is a bad novel.
W. Somerset MaughamI write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp.
W. Somerset MaughamYou tend to close your eyes to truth, beauty and goodness because they give no scope to your sense of the ridiculous.
W. Somerset Maugham