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Every writer since the beginning of time, just like other people, has been afflicted by what a friend of mine calls
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William Styron
Age: 81 †
Born: 1925
Born: June 11
Died: 2006
Died: November 1
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Newport News
Virginia
William Clark Styron
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The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it.
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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
The stigma of self-inflicted death is for some people a hateful blot that demands erasure at all costs.
William Styron
The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis.
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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
Writers ever since writing began have had problems, and the main problem narrows down to just one word - life.
William Styron
My life and work have been far from free of blemish, and so I think it would be unpardonable for a biographer not to dish up the dirt.
William Styron
The writer's duty is to keep on writing.
William Styron
Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.
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
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
We would have to settle for the elegant goal of becoming ourselves.
William Styron
Writing is a form of self-flagellation.
William Styron
Let your love flow out on all living things.
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I felt myself no longer a husk but a body with some of the body's sweet juices stirring again. I had my first dream in many months, confused but to this day imperishable, with a flute in it somewhere, and a wild goose, and a dancing girl.
William Styron
For a person whose sole burning ambition is to write - like myself - college is useless beyond the Sophomore year.
William Styron
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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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.
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The weather of Depression is unmodulated, its light a brownout.
William Styron
Through the healing process of time-and through medical intervention or hospitalization in many cases-most people survive depression which may be its only blessing but to the tragic legion who are compelled to destroy themselves there should be no more reproof attached than to the victims of terminal cancer.
William Styron
