Quotes by William Styron

• A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.
• The writer's duty is to keep on writing.
• The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis.
• Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.
• 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.
• 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.
• Let's face it, writing is hell.
• 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.
• I think it's unfortunate to have critics for friends.
• Writing is a fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats... for jittery people.
• If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
• And so we came forth, and once again beheld the stars.