The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis.
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Let's face it, writing is hell.
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If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
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In depression . . . faith in deliverance, in ultimate restoration, is absent. The pain is unrelenting, and what makes the condition intolerable is the foreknowledge that no remedy will come -- not in a day, an hour, a month, or a minute. . . . It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul.
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