| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 56689 |
| QUOTATION: | Lets 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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