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William Styron [1925-2006] American
Rank: 102
Novelist


William Clark Styron Jr. was an American novelist and essayist who won major literary awards for his work.
Styron was best known for his novels, including:
Lie Down in Darkness, his acclaimed first work, published at age 26;

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