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William Styron Quotes

«The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis.»
Author: William Styron (Novelist, Writer) | About: Writing | Keywords: product, writing
«A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.»
«Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain.»
«In depression . . . faith in deliverance, in ultimate restoration, is absent. The pain is unrelenting, and what makes the condition intolerable is the foreknowledge that no remedy will come -- not in a day, an hour, a month, or a minute. . . . It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul.»
«Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.»
«The madness of depression is the antithesis of violence. It is a storm indeed, but a storm of murk. Soon evident are the slowed-down responses, near paralysis, psychic energy throttled back close to zero. Ultimately, the body is affected and feels sapped, drained.»
«Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.»
Author: William Styron (Novelist, Writer) | Keywords: at bay, bay
«The writer's duty is to keep on writing»
Author: William Styron (Novelist, Writer) | About: Writing | Keywords: On Writing
«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.»
«In Vineyard Haven, on Martha's Vineyard, mostly I love the soft collision here of harbor and shore, the subtly haunting briny quality that all small towns have when they are situated on the sea»

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