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William Styron - From the Anxiety category:
Writing is a fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats... for jittery people. (William Styron)
William Styron - From the Books category:
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it. (William Styron)
William Styron - From the Books category:
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. (William Styron)
William Styron - From the Brother/Sisterhood category:
We're all in this game together. (William Styron)
William Styron - From the Critics category:
I think it's unfortunate to have critics for friends. (William Styron)
William Styron - From the Depression category:
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. (William Styron)
William Styron - From the Depression category:
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. (William Styron)
William Styron - From the Drunkenness category:
Edward was at the stage of drunkenness in which the ego glows like a coal, and brilliant people become more inspired, but in which dull people, fired by the same inspiration, become only more dull. (William Styron)
William Styron - From the Fire category:
I felt the exultancy of a man just released from slavery and ready to set the universe on fire. (William Styron)
William Styron - From the Loneliness category:
Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay. (William Styron)
William Styron - From the Pets category:
A cat loped across my gaze with a squint-eyed, piratical look, and a suave grin. (William Styron)
William Styron - From the Problems category:
Writers ever since writing began have had problems, and the main problem narrows down to just one word - life. (William Styron)
William Styron - From the Profession category:
When, in the autumn of 1947, I was fired from the first and only job I have ever held, I wanted one thing out of life: to become a writer. (William Styron)
William Styron - From the Responsibility category:
The writer's duty is to keep on writing. (William Styron)
William Styron - From the Sadness category:
I have learned to cry again and I think perhaps that means I am a human being again. Perhaps that at least. A piece of human being but, yes, a human being. (William Styron)
William Styron - From the Satisfaction category:
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Writing for me is the hardest thing in the world, but also a thing which, once completed, is the most satisfying... I am no prodigy but, Fate willing, I think I can produce art. (William Styron)
William Styron - From the Searching category:
If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new. (William Styron)
William Styron - From the Suffering category:
The pain is unrelenting; one does not abandon, even briefly, one's bed of nails, but is attached to it wherever one goes. (William Styron)
William Styron - From the Suffering category:
Which is worse, past or future? Neither. I will fold up my mind like a leaf and drift on this stream over the brink. (William Styron)
William Styron - From the Universe category:
And so we came forth, and once again beheld the stars. (William Styron)
William Styron - From the Writing category:
The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads. (William Styron)
William Styron - From the Writing category:
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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