No one can write a best seller by trying to. He must write with complete sincerity; the cliches that make you laugh, the hackneyed characters, the well-worn situations, the commonplace story that excites your derision, seem neither hackneyed, well worn nor commonplace to him. The conclusion is obvious: you cannot write anything that will convince unless you are yourself convinced. The best seller sells because he writes with his heart's blood.

Famous Quotes / W. Somerset Maugham

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W. Somerset Maugham: "No one can write a best seller by trying to. He must write with complete sincerity; the cliches that make you laugh, the hackneyed characters, the well-worn situations, the commonplace story that excites your derision, seem neither hackneyed, well worn nor commonplace to him. The conclusion is obvious: you cannot write anything that will convince unless you are yourself convinced. The best seller sells because he writes with his heart's blood."

Quotations about

Anything	Because	Blood	Characters
Cliches	Commonplace	Complete	Conclusion
Convince	Convinced	Derision	Excites
Hackneyed	Hearts	Laugh	Make
Must	Neither	Obvious	Seem
Seller	Sells	Sincerity	Situations
Story	Trying	Unless	Wellworn
Worn	Write	Writes	Your
Yourself

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No one can write a best seller by trying to. He must write with complete sincerity; the cliches that make you laugh, the hackneyed characters, the well-worn situations, the commonplace story that excites your derision, seem neither hackneyed, well worn nor commonplace to him. The conclusion is obvious: you cannot write anything that will convince unless you are yourself convinced. The best seller sells because he writes with his heart's blood. - W. Somerset Maugham