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• I think that one of the compelling themes of fiction is this confrontation between good and evil.
• The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis.
• The writer's duty is to keep on writing.
• I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the pain of getting…
• Through the healing process of time-and through medical intervention or hospitalization in many cases-most people survive depression which may be its only…
• Let's face it, writing is hell.
• A disruption of the circadian cycle—the metabolic and glandular rhythms that are central to our workaday life—seems to be involved in many,…
• I think it's unfortunate to have critics for friends.
• Depression...so mysteriously painful and elusive...
• For a person whose sole burning ambition is to write - like myself - college is useless beyond the Sophomore year.
• Writing is a fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats... for jittery people.
• The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it.

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