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William Styron
Age: 81 †
Born: 1925
Born: June 11
Died: 2006
Died: November 1
Military Personnel
Novelist
Writer
Newport News
Virginia
William Clark Styron
Jr.
Satire
Morally
Read
Funny
Good
Wickedly
Bracing

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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.
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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.
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Writers ever since writing began have had problems, and the main problem narrows down to just one word - life.
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Let your love flow out on all living things.
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Let's face it, writing is hell.
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It's fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats as I am most of the time — for jittery people.
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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.
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Nonfiction writers are second-class citizens, the Ellis Island of literature. We just can't quite get in. And yes, it pisses me off.
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The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it.
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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.
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The pain is unrelenting one does not abandon, even briefly, one's bed of nails, but is attached to it wherever one goes.
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The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis.
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Which is worse, past or future? Neither. I will fold up my mind like a leaf and drift on this stream over the brink.
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In the absence of hope we must still struggle to survive, and so we do-by the skin of our teeth.
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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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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.
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A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.
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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.
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We would have to settle for the elegant goal of becoming ourselves.
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we each devise our means of escape from the intolerable.
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