W Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) - The Relations of Art and Life

This 1960s interview with W Somerset Maugham is somewhat a companion piece to my upload ‘E M Forster Talks About Writing Novels - ’Only Connect’’ in that both writers are talking about the connections of literature and life and what they tried to achieve in their novels. On a personal note, Maugham said of himself in another context: “I was a quarter normal and three-quarters queer, but I tried to persuade myself it was the other way round. That was my greatest mistake.“ Attracted to both sexes as a youn