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

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

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

Style comes only have long, hard practice and writing.

William Styron quotes: 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.

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

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

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

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

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

The writer's duty is to keep on writing.

William Styron quotes: We're all in this game together.

We're all in this game together.

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

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

William Styron quotes: 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

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 quotes: Depression ... so mysteriously painful and elusive ...

Depression ... so mysteriously painful and elusive ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 quotes: Writing is a form of self-flagellation.

Writing is a form of self-flagellation.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 quotes: 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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 quotes: I hate this type of unearned unhappiness.

I hate this type of unearned unhappiness.

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

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

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

Let your love flow out on all living things.

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

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

William Styron quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.

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

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

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

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

We each devise our means of escape from the intolerable.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Let's face it, writing is hell.

William Styron quotes: 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.

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 quotes: There is only one way out--up the chimney.

There is only one way out--up the chimney.