For a person whose sole burning ambition is to write - like myself - college is useless beyond … - William Styron

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Schiller writes in a letter [to Goethe, 17 December 1795] of a 'poetic mood'. I think I know what he means, I think I am familiar with it myself. It is the mood of receptivity to nature and one in which one's thoughts seem as vivid as nature itself.

William Styron

For a person whose sole burning ambition is to write - like myself - college is useless beyond the Sophomore year.

Ambition, College, Person, Sophomore, Writing

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Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self -- to the mediating intellect-- as to verge close to being beyond description. It thus remains nearly incomprehensible to those who have not experienced it in its extreme mode.

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A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.

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What this country needs. . . what this great land of ours needs is something to happen to it. Something ferocious and tragic, like what happened to Jericho or the cities of the plain - something terrible I mean, son, so that when the people have been through hellfire and the crucible, and have suffered agony enough and grief, they’ll be people again, human beings, not a bunch of smug contented cows rooting at the trough.

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The writer's duty is to keep on writing.

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The pain is unrelenting; one does not abandon, even briefly, one's bed of nails, but is attached to it wherever one goes.

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Torture is illegal. Torture is banned by various provisions of the law. I support that.

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I started out as an actor, but I forced myself to be a writer, even though I wasn't very good at it and had never written. I don't think I ever passed an English course in my life. My first eight to 10 scripts were pretty horrendous, but I stayed at it, stayed at it, and stayed at it, until I eventually found a voice and a subject like Rocky that people were interested in.

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Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It's the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.

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Darius Milhaud

The most difficult thing in music is still to write a melody of several bars which can be self-sufficient. That is the secret of music. While the technique should be as perfected as possible, that is a lesser essential Anybody can acquire a brilliant technique Melody alone permits a work to survive.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

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