Somerset Quotes

When Somerset Maugham wrote a book everyone would say, `Oh, God, who is Willie writing about now?` When Flaubert wrote `Emma Bovary` twenty women said they were Emma. I start writing with a theme in my mind. Then I start asking, what kind of a personality? And because I have a good ear, I unconsciously pick up certain people. But that doesn`t mean those people have led that life. Going back to Shakespeare`s time, there was a Hamlet, but not such as he wrote it.

At that time I had no notion that I should ever come to live in Somerset - to live actually within the range of what then lay before me.

We have so many other areas with road and drainage needs, I have a problem with that. I`ve been working day and night to get Somerset Lane and Pine Avenue paved. You get to the north end of Pine Avenue and it looks like a Third World country.

You have to wonder how they got it up there. But, this is what life is all about. History, which he was such a major part of. Not just being raised in Somerset, but being a famous general during the Civil War. I guess every small town wants to be connected to history through a famous person and he`s who we connect with.