Quotes by William Styron

William Styron

[However], the sufferer from depression has no option, and therefore finds himself, like a walking casualty of war, thrust into the most intolerable social and family situations. There he must … present a face approximating the one associated with ordinary events and companionship. He must try to utter small talk and be responsive to questions, and knowingly nod, and frown and, God help him, even smile.

Events

Trying

War

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

Inspirational

Inspiring

Life

A great book should leave you with many experiences.

Book

Inspirational Reading

Should

Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self — to the mediating intellect– as to verge close to being beyond description. It thus remains nearly incomprehensible to those who have not experienced it in its extreme mode.

Painful

Self

Way

Depression…so mysteriously painful and elusive.

Elusive

Painful

Every writer since the beginning of time, just like other people, has been afflicted by what a friend of mine calls

Has Beens

Mines

People

For a person whose sole burning ambition is to write – like myself – college is useless beyond the Sophomore year.

Ambition

College

Writing

From the writer’s point of view, critics should be ignored, although it’s hard not to do what they suggest. I think it’s unfortunate to have critics for friends. Suppose you write something that stinks, what are they going to say in a review? Say it stinks? So if they’re honest, they do, and if you were friends you’re still friends, but the knowledge of your lousy writing and their articulate admission of it will be always something between the two of you, like the knowledge between a man and his wife of some shady adultery.

Men

Thinking

Writing

Further, Dr. Gold said with a straight face, the pill at optimum dosage could have the side effect of impotence. Until that moment, although I’d had some trouble with his personality, I had not thought him totally lacking in perspicacity; now I was not all sure. Putting myself in Dr. Gold’s shoes, I wondered if he seriously thought that this juiceless and ravaged semi-invalid with the shuffle and the ancient wheeze woke up each morning from his Halcion sleep eager for carnal fun.

Fun

Morning

Sleep

I discovered that I had, in the past two decades, written a far greater amount in the essay form than I remembered. Certainly I have written enough of it to demonstrate that I harbor no disdain for literary journalism or just plain journalism, under whose sponsorship I have been able to express much that has fascinated me, or alarmed me, or amused me, or otherwise engaged my attention when I was not writing a book.

Book

Past

Writing

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Ambition

Anguish

Becoming

Blessed

Body

Book

Brain

Burning

Citizens

Class

College

Crush

Depression

Dirt

Dream

Elusive

Events

Excellent

Finals

Fire

Flow

Form

Fun

Games

Girl

Giving

Goal

Hands

Has Beens

Inspirational

Inspirational Reading

Inspiring

Islands

Judging

Judgment

Knives

Life

Living Things

Love

Mean

Men

Mind

Mines

Morning

Normal

Numbness

One Word

Pain

Painful

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Quotes by William Styron

William Styron

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

A great book should leave you with many experiences.

Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self — to the mediating intellect– as to verge close to being beyond description. It thus remains nearly incomprehensible to those who have not experienced it in its extreme mode.

Depression…so mysteriously painful and elusive.

Every writer since the beginning of time, just like other people, has been afflicted by what a friend of mine calls

For a person whose sole burning ambition is to write – like myself – college is useless beyond the Sophomore year.

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