The Wisdom Of W.s. Maugham
January, 1966
In a Revelatory Summing Up, One of the World's Great Storytellers Synthesizes his Thoughts on Writers and Writing, Women and Love, Life and DeathI have always had an exalted conception of the profession of writing, believing that literature, or pure imaginative creation, was the highest goal toward which a man could strive. The pulpit, the bar, the clinic, the professor's chair were not for me; therefore I seized upon pen and paper as the only means left of uttering myself to my age.Early in lif...
