Pies and beer, or skeleton in the closet. Somerset Maugham

The novel “Pies and Beer, or Skeleton in the Cupid” - about writing work and “Life Sore” from which real works of art grow - Maugham considered his loved one, and critics were unanimously recognized as one of the “highest achievements of British novelism”. In the center of the story is the fate of the famous English writer Edward Driffield, whose creative path was contradictory and thorny. At the dawn of his career, he was known as a tasteless realist, whom he despised the whole city and rejected the literary environment, and at the end of his life became a recognized classic. Does this prove that the writer is not just a profession, but a special way of thinking and actions?