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Writing Quotes by William Styron
- 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 started each day.…
- Let's face it, writing is hell.
- 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.
- 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…
- I'm simply the happiest, the placidest, when I'm writing, and so I suppose that that, for me, is the final answer. ... It's fine therapy…
- 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…
- 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…
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