Quotes of William Styron - somelinesforyou

“ A good book should leave you… slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it. ”

- William Styron

“ Someday I will understand Auschwitz. This was a brave statement but innocently absurd. No one will ever understand Auschwitz. What I might have set down with more accuracy would have been: Someday I will write about Sophie's life and death, and thereby help demonstrate how absolute evil is never extinguished from the world. Auschwitz itself remains inexplicable. The most profound statement yet made about Auschwitz was not a statement at all, but a response. The query: "At Auschwitz, tell me, where was God?" And the answer: "Where was man? ”

- William Styron

“ The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads. ”

- William Styron

“ 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 that came along were a happy bunch of chuckleheads. ”

- 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 started each day. Let's face it, writing is hell. ”

- William Styron

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

- William Styron

“ A good book should leave you....slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it. ”

- William Styron

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

- William Styron

“ A good book should leave you....slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it. ”

- William Styron

“ Reading... the best state possible in which to keep absolute loneliness at bay. ”

- William Styron

“ Every writer since the beginning of time, just like other people, has been afflicted by what friend of mine calls "the fleas of life"-you know, colds, hangovers, bills, sprained ankles and little nuisances of one sort or another. ”

- William Styron

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

- William Styron

“ It did not occur to me that there would be many difficulties to impede my ambition. ”

- William Styron

“ Reading... the best state possible in which to keep absolute loneliness at bay. ”

- William Styron

“ We would have to settle for the elegant goal of becoming ourselves. ”

- William Styron

“ Reading... the best state possible in which to keep absolute loneliness at bay. ”

- William Styron

“ Let's face it, writing is hell. ”

- William Styron

“ Let's face it, writing is hell. ”

- William Styron

“ In depression... faith in deliverance, in ultimate restoration, is absent. The pain is unrelenting, and what makes the condition intolerable is the foreknowledge that no remedy will come — not in a day, an hour, a month, or a minute.... It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul. ”

- 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. ”

- William Styron

“ Let's face it, writing is hell. ”

- William Styron

“ In depression... faith in deliverance, in ultimate restoration, is absent. The pain is unrelenting, and what makes the condition intolerable is the foreknowledge that no remedy will come — not in a day, an hour, a month, or a minute.... It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul. ”

- William Styron

“ In depression... faith in deliverance, in ultimate restoration, is absent. The pain is unrelenting, and what makes the condition intolerable is the foreknowledge that no remedy will come — not in a day, an hour, a month, or a minute.... It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul. ”

- William Styron

“ A good book should leave you... slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it. ”

- William Styron

“ Let's face it, writing is hell. ”

- William Styron

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

- William Styron

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

- William Styron

“ We would have to settle for the elegant goal of becoming ourselves. ”

- 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 started each day. Let's face it, writing is hell. ”

- William Styron

“ Let's face it, writing is hell. ”

- William Styron
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