“An author spends months writing a book, and maybe
puts his heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader
has nothing else in the world to do.”—British man of letters W. Somerset
Maugham (1874-1965), The Razor's Edge (1943)Tuesday, January 2, 2018
Quote of the Day (Somerset Maugham, on an Author’s Frustration)
“An author spends months writing a book, and maybe
puts his heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader
has nothing else in the world to do.”—British man of letters W. Somerset
Maugham (1874-1965), The Razor's Edge (1943)
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