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Writers Quotes by William Styron
- And when you get an eminent journal like Time magazine complaining, as it often has, that to the young writers of today life seems short…
- Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them;…
- Writers ever since writing began have had problems, and the main problem narrows down to just one word - life.
- The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers…
- 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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