From The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham: A Biography, by Selina HastingsAN ADDICT
"Throughout his life Maugham referred to his love of reading as an addiction; it was, he explained 'a necessity, and if I am deprived of it for a little while I find myself as irritable as the addict deprived of his drug': wherever he was he took care to be well supplied with books, on his travels always taking a trunkful with him."
From Chapter 9: A World of Veranda and Prahu
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