The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis.
- William Styron
Product, Always, Been, Neurosis
Writing is a fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats... for jittery people.
- William Styron
Therapy, Fine, Perpetually, Scared
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
Death, Die, Over, Authors
Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.
- William Styron
Reading, Keep, Absolute, Bay
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
Pain, Doing, Pretty, Each Day
And so we came forth, and once again beheld the stars.
- William Styron
Again, Once, Came, Beheld
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
Pain, Natural, Horror, Depression
The writer's duty is to keep on writing.
- William Styron
Writing, Writer, Keep, Duty
I think it's unfortunate to have critics for friends.
- William Styron
Think, Critics, I Think, Unfortunate
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.
- William Styron
Book, Slightly, Lives, Experiences
If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
- William Styron
New, Find, Very, Pleasant
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