W. Somerset Maugham Quotes About Books

• Adquirir el hábito de la lectura es construirse un refugio contra casi todas las miserias de la vida.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Vida, Libro, Lectura

• Lo único importante de un libro es el significado que tiene para ti.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Educación, Libro, Lectura

• Un autor pasa meses escribiendo un libro, y tal vez pone en él la sangre de su corazón, y luego se queda sin leer hasta que el lector no tiene otra cosa que hacer en el mundo.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Mentir, Libro, Escribir

• Cuando leo un libro, parece que lo leo sólo con los ojos, pero de vez en cuando me encuentro con un pasaje, quizá sólo una frase, que tiene un significado para mí, y se convierte en parte de mí.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Libro, Lectura, Ojo

  W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.446, Diversion Books

• Tengo la idea de que lo único que hace posible contemplar este mundo en el que vivimos sin repugnancia es la belleza que de vez en cuando los hombres crean a partir del caos. Los cuadros que pintan, la música que componen, los libros que escriben y las vidas que llevan. De todas ellas, la más rica en belleza es la vida bella. Es la obra de arte perfecta.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Hermoso, Arte, Libro

• I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Divertido, Libro, Lectura

• La gran novela americana no sólo ya se ha escrito, sino que ya se ha rechazado.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Divertido, Libro, Lectura

• But the only important thing in a book is the meaning it has for you; it may have other and much more profound meanings for the critic, but at second-hand they can be of small service to you.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Book, Hands, Profound

• I never met an author who admitted that people did not buy his book because it was dull.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Libro, Lectura, Personas

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). "El propio Sr. Maugham"

• What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Brother, Book, Single Life

  "Newsweek" Magazine, May 23, 1960.

• The day broke grey and dull. The clouds hung heavily, and there was a rawness in the air that suggested snow. A woman servant came into a room in which a child was sleeping and drew the curtains. She glanced mechanically at the house opposite, a stucco house with a portico, and went to the child's bed.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Children, Book, Sleep

  W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.3, Diversion Books

• Es sorprendente la cantidad de libros que encuentro que no necesito leer en absoluto.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Book, Needs, Astonishing

• Hazle reír y te considerará un tipo trivial, pero aburrele de la forma adecuada y tu reputación estará asegurada.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Libro, Lectura, Pensamiento

  W. Somerset Maugham (1941). "El caballero en el salón"

• People do tell a writer things that they don't tell others. I don't know why, unless it is that having read one or two of his books they feel on peculiarly intimate terms with him; or it may be that they dramatize themselves and, seeing themselves as it were as characters in a novel, are ready to be as open with him as they imagine the characters of his invention are.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Libro, Escritura, Personaje

• Some people read for instruction, which is praiseworthy, and some for pleasure, which is innocent, but not a few read from habit, and I suppose that this is neither innocent or praiseworthy. Of that lamentable company am I. Conversation after a time bores me, games tire me and my own thoughts, which we are told are the unfailing resource of a sensible man, have a tendency to run dry. Then I fly to my book as the opium-smoker to his pipe.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Running, Book, Men

  W. Somerset Maugham (2009). “Collected Short Stories”, p.11, Random House

También te puede gustar:

Graham Greene

George Orwell

Evelyn Waugh

Ernest Hemingway

Joseph Conrad

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Paul Gauguin