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Style comes only have long, hard practice and writing.

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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.
Style
Practice
Comes
Hard
Writing
Long

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A great book should leave you with many experiences.
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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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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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I think that one of the compelling themes of fiction is this confrontation between good and evil.
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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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The mornings themselves were becoming bad now as I wandered about lethargic, following my synthetic sleep, but afternoons were still the worst, beginning at about three o'clock, when I'd feel the horror, like some poisonous fog bank roll in upon my mind, forcing me into bed.
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Wickedly funny to read and morally bracing as only good satire can be.
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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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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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Depression...so mysteriously painful and elusive.
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We would have to settle for the elegant goal of becoming ourselves.
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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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I felt a kind of numbness, an enervation, but more particularly an odd fragility - as if my body had actually become frail, hypersensitive and somehow disjointed and clumsy, lacking normal coordination. And soon I was in the throes of a pervasive hypochondria.
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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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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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The pain of depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it, and it kills in many instances because its anguish can no longer be borne. The prevention of many suicides will continue to be hindered until there is a general awareness of the nature of this pain.
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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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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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Writing is a form of self-flagellation.
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It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul.
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