A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it. – William Styron
Writing is a fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats… for jittery people. – William Styron
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
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
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
