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William Styron

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


— William Styron


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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


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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


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


— William Styron


#exhausted #experiences #great #great book #leave

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


— William Styron


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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


#doing #each #face #feeling #fine






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"That's an experience I wouldn't wish on Heinrich Himmler. Port Warwick
Port Warwick in Virginia was named after the fictional city in Styron's Lie Down in Darkness. The year 1953 was eventful for Styron in another way.

Styron's influence deepened and his readership expanded with the publication of Darkness Visible in 1990. (June 11 1925 – November 1 2006) was an American novelist and essayist who won major literary awards for his work. This memoir originally intended as a magazine article chronicled the author's descent into depression and his near-fatal night of "despair beyond despair".

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