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The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis.

~William Styron

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Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain.

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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.

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Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.

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A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.

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I think it's unfortunate to have critics for friends.

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The writer's duty is to keep on writing.

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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; they live, and their influence lives forever.

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If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.

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Let's face it, writing is hell.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: June 11th, 1925

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