A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.
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Let's face it, writing is hell.William Styron
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.
William Styron
And so we came forth, and once again beheld the stars.
William Styron
The pain is unrelenting one does not abandon, even briefly, one's bed of nails, but is attached to it wherever one goes.
William Styron
The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis.
William Styron
What I encountered in producing Race to the Moon ... It was a moment that was depthless and inexpressible.
William Styron
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