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I think that one of the compelling themes of fiction is this confrontation between good and evil. — William Styron

Style comes only have long, hard practice and writing. — William Styron

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

Maybe that's the key to happiness - being sort of dumb, not wanting to know any of the answers. — William Styron

Depression, which can be as serious a medical affair as diabetes or cancer. — William Styron

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

We're all in this game together. — William Styron

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

I was still in this state of being a little girl and thinking that this wonderful life so comfortable and safe and secure would continue forever. Mama — William Styron

Depression ... so mysteriously painful and elusive ... — William Styron

The stigma of self-inflicted death is for some people a hateful blot that demands erasure at all costs. — William Styron

It is a positive and active anguish, a sort of psychical neuralgia wholly unknown to normal life. — William Styron

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading. — William Styron

Loss in all of its manifestations is the touchstone of depression - in the progress of the disease and, most likely, in its origin. — William Styron

Writing is a form of self-flagellation. — William Styron

It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul. — William Styron

A good book should leave you ... slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it. — William Styron

A cat loped across my gaze with a squint-eyed, piratical look, and a suave grin. — William Styron

history's greatest liquidator of Jews, the thick-witted Heinrich Himmler, was a chicken farmer. — William Styron

This was not judgment day - only morning. Morning: excellent and fair. — William Styron

And so we came forth, and once again beheld the stars. — William Styron

An extermination center can only manufacture corpses; a society of total domination creates a world of the living dead... — William Styron

I never said I hated the Marine Corps! I only said it was no place for a sensitive, civilized, self-respecting human being. — 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

In the absence of hope we must still struggle to survive, and so we do-by the skin of our teeth. — William Styron

Writers ever since writing began have had problems, and the main problem narrows down to just one word - life. — William Styron

We each devise our means of escape from the intolerable. — William Styron

I hate this type of unearned unhappiness. — William Styron

That I chose Independence Day as the moment to strike was of course a piece of deliberate irony. — William Styron

Let your love flow out on all living things. — William Styron

You live several lives while reading [a good book]. — William Styron

Perhaps, he thought, if I only think of this second, this moment, the train won't come at all. Think of the water, think of now. — William Styron

Still, I believed I understood. Or maybe I just put it in a context I could safely manage. — Alexandra Styron

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

Every writer since the beginning of time, just like other people, has been afflicted by what a friend of mine calls — William Styron

We would have to settle for the elegant goal of becoming ourselves. — William Styron

Nonfiction writers are second-class citizens, the Ellis Island of literature. We just can't quite get in. And yes, it pisses me off. — William Styron

For a person whose sole burning ambition is to write - like myself - college is useless beyond the Sophomore year. — William Styron

I think it's unfortunate to have critics for friends. — William Styron

I felt the exultancy of a man just released from slavery and ready to set the universe on fire. — William Styron

Wickedly funny to read and morally bracing as only good satire can be. — William Styron

Let's face it, writing is hell. — William Styron

The libido also made an early exit, as it does in most major illnesses - it is the superfluous need of a body in beleaguered emergency. — William Styron

There is only one way out--up the chimney. — William Styron