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

Quote by William Styron

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The writer's duty is to keep on writing.

The writer's duty is to keep on writing.

And so we came forth, and once again beheld the stars.

And so we came forth, and once again beheld the stars.

I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty...

I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty...

Let's face it, writing is hell.

Let's face it, writing is hell.

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live...

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live...

The writer's duty is to keep on writing

The writer's duty is to keep on writing

Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can...

Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can...

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live...

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live...

Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can...

Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can...

Writing is a fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats... for...

Writing is a fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats... for...

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

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

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

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

Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of...

Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of...

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

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

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

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

Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.

Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the...

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the...

The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too...

The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too...

YOUTH, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following...

YOUTH, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following...

My mental hands were empty, and I felt I must do something as a counterirritant...

My mental hands were empty, and I felt I must do something as a counterirritant...

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are...

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are...