Quotes by : William Styron

On Major Depression, quoted by the great William Styron of Sophie's Choice & Darkness Visible:From Darkness....

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

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several....

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

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

Then I resolved that I would go back out there and somehow cope with the situation, despite the fact....

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

The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have mighty dull....

There he must, despite the anguish devouring his brain, present a face approximating the one that is....

When I was first aware that I had been laid low by the disease, I felt a need, among other things, to....