William Styron Quotes

"The writer's duty is to keep on writing."
- William Styron
(Related: Duty, Writer, Writing)

"The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis."
- William Styron
(Related: Age, Neurosis, Writing)

"Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay."
- William Styron
(Related: Loneliness, Reading, State)

"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
(Related: Experience, Quality, Depression, Horror, Pain)

"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
(Related: Death, Books, Influence)

"Let's face it, writing is hell."
- William Styron
(Related: 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
(Related: Day, Feeling, Hell, Pain, Pleasure, Pretty, Writing)

"I think it's unfortunate to have critics for friends."
- William Styron
(Related: Friends)

"Writing is a fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats... for jittery people."
- William Styron
(Related: People, Therapy, Writing)

"If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new."
- William Styron

"And so we came forth, and once again beheld the stars."
- William Styron
(Related: Stars)