177 Quotes by 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.

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

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

I think it's unfortunate to have critics for friends.

The writer's duty is to keep on writing.

Writing is a fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats... for jittery people.

And so we came forth, and once again beheld the stars.

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.

Basically it is a very politically incorrect book written by a white man trying to seize his own interpretation and put it into the soul and heart of a black man.