“Only the poet or the saint can water an asphalt pavement in the confident anticipation that lilies will reward his labour.”—W Somerset Maugham in The Moon and Sixpence.
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Why Write If You are not going to be Published?
As a writer, reading the following lines from The Moon and Sixpence gave me some solace:
“The moral I draw is that the writer should seek his reward in the pleasure of his work and in release from the burden of his thoughts; and, indifferent to aught else, care nothing for praise or censure, failure or success.”—W Somerset Maugham
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