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Writer Quotes by William Styron
- The writer's duty is to keep on writing.
- Every writer since the beginning of time, just like other people, has been afflicted by what a friend of mine calls
- Perhaps the critics are right: this generation may not produce literature equal to that of any past generation-who cares? The writer will be dead before…
- When, in the autumn of 1947, I was fired from the first and only job I have ever held, I wanted one thing out of…
- Every writer since the beginning of time, just like other people, has been afflicted by what [a] friend of mine calls "the fleas of life"-you…
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