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Read through the most famous quotes from 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. ↗
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it. ↗
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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".