28 ordspråk av William Styron
William Styron
 A good book should leave you... slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it. |
| A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it. |
| A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it. |
| And so we came forth, and once again beheld the stars. |
| 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. |
| Every writer since the beginning of time, just like other people, has been afflicted by what [a] friend of mine calls "the fleas of life"-you know, colds, hangovers, bills, sprained ankles and little nuisances of one sort or another. |
| I could compose on white sheets, in longhand, but it would be an added handicap. . . . |
| 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. |
| I think it's unfortunate to have critics for friends. |
| In America there seems to be an idea that writing is one big cat-and-dog fight between the various parishioners of the craft. |
| 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. |
| In Vineyard Haven, on Martha's Vineyard, mostly I love the soft collision here of harbor and shore, the subtly haunting briny quality that all small towns have when they are situated on the sea |
| It did not occur to me that there would be many difficulties to impede my ambition. . . . |
| Let's face it, writing is hell. |
| 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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