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William Styron
American
Novelist
About the author
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.
William Styron,
American
Novelist
#Reading
The writer's duty is to keep on writing.
William Styron,
American
Novelist
#Writing
#Writer
#Duty
The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis.
William Styron,
American
Novelist
#Writing
#Age
#Neurosis
Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.
William Styron,
American
Novelist
#State
#Reading
#Loneliness
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,
American
Novelist
#Experience
#Quality
#Pain
#Horror
#Depression
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,
American
Novelist
#Death
#Influence
#Books
Let's face it, writing is hell.
William Styron,
American
Novelist
#Hell
#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.
William Styron,
American
Novelist
#Day
#Feeling
#Hell
#Pretty
#Writing
#Pleasure
#Pain
I think it's unfortunate to have critics for friends.
William Styron,
American
Novelist
#Friends
Writing is a fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats... for jittery people.
William Styron,
American
Novelist
#People
#Writing
#Therapy
If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
William Styron,
American
Novelist
And so we came forth, and once again beheld the stars.
William Styron,
American
Novelist
#Stars