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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

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Let's face it, writing is hell. ↗

— William Styron

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

— William Styron

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It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

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Better that you should take the chance of trying something that is close to your heart, you think is what you want to write, and if they do not publish it, put it in your drawer. But maybe another day will come and you will find a place to put that. ↗

— Gay Talese

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For example, many colleges in their writing programs teach some of my work. ↗

— Gay Talese

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I am writing about people who are alive in the city of New York during mid-20th-century America. And these people are like a character in a play or they are figures in a short story or a novel. ↗

— Gay Talese

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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work. ↗

— Gay Talese

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Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone. ↗

— Amy Tan

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Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

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