William Styron

Style comes only have long, hard practice and writing.

— William Styron

You live several lives while reading [a good book].

— William Styron

Let's face it, writing is hell.

— William Styron

“E quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle.”

— William Styron

“We're all in this game together.”

— William Styron

A great book should leave you with many experiences.

— William Styron

Let your love flow out on all living things.

— William Styron

we each devise our means of escape from the intolerable.

— William Styron

The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it.

— William Styron

The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis.

— William Styron

The stigma of self-inflicted death is for some people a hateful blot that demands erasure at all costs.

— William Styron

Writers ever since writing began have had problems, and the main problem narrows down to just one word - life.

— William Styron

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

— William Styron

This was not judgment day - only morning. Morning: excellent and fair.

— William Styron

It's fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats as I am most of the time — for jittery people.

— William Styron

“A cat loped across my gaze with a squint-eyed, piratical look, and a suave grin.”

— William Styron

I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the pain of getting…

— William Styron

I felt myself no longer a husk but a body with some of the body's sweet juices stirring again. I had my…

— William Styron

“Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self—to the mediating…

— William Styron

“Yet if she did not quite exist in the full flood of sunlight, which is the hackneyed metaphor for good health, she…

— William Styron

I have learned to cry again and I think perhaps that means I am a human being again. Perhaps that at least.…

— William Styron

“There are friends one makes at a youthful age in whom one simply rejoices, for whom one possesses a love and loyalty…

— William Styron

“The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it, and it kills in many instances because…

— William Styron

Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the…

— William Styron

[However], the sufferer from depression has no option, and therefore finds himself, like a walking casualty of war, thrust into the most…

— William Styron

And when you get an eminent journal like Time magazine complaining, as it often has, that to the young writers of today…

— William Styron

“Until that moment, although I’d had some trouble with his personality, I had not thought him totally lacking in perspicacity; now I…

— William Styron

“The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it, and it kills in many instances because…

— William Styron

“Further, Dr. Gold said with a straight face, the pill at optimum dosage could have the side effect of impotence. Until that…

— William Styron

The mornings themselves were becoming bad now as I wandered about lethargic, following my synthetic sleep, but afternoons were still the worst,…

— William Styron

“At Dachau. We had a wonderful pool for the garrison children. It was even heated. But that was before we were transferred.…

— William Styron

Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self -- to…

— William Styron

“The night was blustery and raw, with a chill wet wind blowing down the avenues, and when Rose and I met Françoise…

— William Styron

“What I had begun to discover is that, mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from normal experience, the grey drizzle…

— William Styron

“it has to be emphasized that if the pain were readily describable most of the countless sufferers from this ancient affliction would…

— William Styron

“date of the award approached, I would not have accepted at all. Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and…

— William Styron

“More or less the same can be said for Art Therapy, which is organized infantilism. Our class was run by a delirious…

— William Styron

“the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain. But it is not an immediately identifiable…

— William Styron

“The pain is unrelenting, and what makes the condition intolerable is the foreknowledge that no remedy will come- not in a day,…

— William Styron

“In depression this faith in deliverance, in ultimate restoration, is absent. The pain is unrelenting, and what makes the condition intolerable is…

— William Styron