Every writer since the beginning of time, just like other people, has been afflicted by what [a] friend of mine calls "the… — William Styron Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have mighty dull literature if all… — William Styron Copy Share Image
“Writing for me is the hardest thing in the world, but also a thing which, once completed, is the most satisfying. ...… — William Styron Copy Share Image
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… — William Styron Copy Share Image
I try to get a feeling of what's going on in the story before I put it down on paper, but actually… — William Styron Copy Share Image
For a person whose sole burning ambition is to write - like myself - college is useless beyond the Sophomore year. — William Styron Copy Share Image
The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if… — William Styron Copy Share Image
The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis. — William Styron Copy Share Image
Writing is a fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats... for jittery people. — William Styron Copy Share Image
Nonfiction writers are second-class citizens, the Ellis Island of literature. We just can't quite get in. And yes, it pisses me off. — William Styron Copy Share Image
And when you get an eminent journal like Time magazine complaining, as it often has, that to the young writers of today… — William Styron Copy Share Image
Every writer since the beginning of time, just like other people, has been afflicted by what a friend of mine calls — William Styron Copy Share Image
I'm simply the happiest, the placidest, when I'm writing, and so I suppose that that, for me, is the final answer. ...… — William Styron Copy Share Image
Like Hemingway and Faulkner, but in an entirely different mode, Fitzgerald had that singular quality without which a writer is not really… — William Styron Copy Share Image
When, in the autumn of 1947, I was fired from the first and only job I have ever held, I wanted one… — William Styron Copy Share Image
Writers ever since writing began have had problems, and the main problem narrows down to just one word - life. — William Styron Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I discovered that I had, in the past two decades, written a far greater amount in the essay form than I remembered.… — William Styron Copy Share Image
“Perhaps, he thought, if I only think of this second, this moment, the train won't come at all. Think of the water, think of… — William Styron Copy Share Image
“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… — William Styron Copy Share Image
Every writer since the beginning of time, just like other people, has been afflicted by what [a] friend of mine calls "the fleas of… — William Styron Copy Share Image
“Are there, as science fiction and Gnostic speculation imply, different species of time in the same world, 'good time' and enveloping folds of inhuman… — William Styron Copy Share Image
I felt the exultancy of a man just released from slavery and ready to set the universe on fire. — William Styron Copy Share Image
“date of the award approached, I would not have accepted at all. Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in… — William Styron Copy Share Image
“I actually shivered at the insincerity that gripped me as I spoke these words: their falseness was shameful. I was sure my coolness would… — William Styron Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“He was made uneasy by unbraked hilarity and by extremes of sorrow alike, especially the latter; he preferred life to sail along pleasantly and… — William Styron Copy Share Image
“One of the century’s most famous intellectual pronouncements comes at the beginning of The Myth of Sisyphus: “There is but one truly serious philosophical… — William Styron Copy Share Image
“The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have mighty dull literature if all the writers… — William Styron Copy Share Image
