177 Quotes by William Styron

That I chose Independence Day as the moment to strike was of course a piece of deliberate irony.

It is a positive and active anguish, a sort of psychical neuralgia wholly unknown to normal life.

The pain is unrelenting; one does not abandon, even briefly, one’s bed of nails, but is attached to it wherever one goes.

For a person whose sole burning ambition is to write – like myself – college is useless beyond the Sophomore year.

A lot of the literature available concerning depression is, as I say, breezily optimistic, spreading assurances that nearly all depressive states will be stabilized or reversed if only the suitable antidepressant can be found; the reader is of course easily swayed by promises of quick remedy... I am hardly able to believe that I possessed such ingenuous hope, or that I could have been so unaware of the trouble and peril that lay ahead.

If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.