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I think that one of the compelling themes of fiction is this confrontation between good and evil.
— 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
The writer's duty is to keep on writing.
— William Styron
We're all in this game together.
— 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
Writing is a form of self-flagellation.
— William Styron
We would have to settle for the elegant goal of becoming ourselves.
— 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
For a person whose sole burning ambition is to write - like myself - college is useless beyond the Sophomore year.
— 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
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
I felt the exultancy of a man just released from slavery and ready to set the universe on fire.
— William Styron
I think it's unfortunate to have critics for friends.
— 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
We each devise our means of escape from the intolerable.
— 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
Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.
— William Styron
Still, I believed I understood. Or maybe I just put it in a context I could safely manage.
— Alexandra 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
You live several lives while reading [a good book].
— William Styron
Let your love flow out on all living things.
— William Styron
That I chose Independence Day as the moment to strike was of course a piece of deliberate irony.
— William Styron
I hate this type of unearned unhappiness.
— William Styron