William Styron Quotes

Writing is a fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats . . . for jittery people. - William Styron

They are the constants of life, at the core of life, along with nice little delights that come along every now and then . . . we all have them. - William Styron

The writer's duty is to keep on writing. - William Styron

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

The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis. - William Styron

Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay. - William Styron

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

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

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