Suffering is too strong a word, but writing is serious work. I pull the stuff up from me - it's not as if it's a pleasure. (Colm Tóibín)

Suffering is too strong a word, but writing is serious work. I pull the stuff up from me - it's not as if it's a pleasure.

Colm Tóibín

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