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NUMBER:56689
QUOTATION:Let’s face it, writing is hell.
ATTRIBUTION:William Styron (b. 1925), U.S. novelist. Interview in Writers at Work, First Series, ed. Malcolm Cowley (1958).

Writing, Styron said in the same interview, is a “fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats ... for jittery people.”
 
 
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