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.
More Quotes from William Styron:
And so we came forth, and once again beheld the stars.William Styron
In America there seems to be an idea that writing is one big cat-and-dog fight between the various parishioners of the craft.
William Styron
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.
William Styron
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.
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.
William Styron
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.
William Styron
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Hell Quotes, Pain Quotes, Pleasure Quotes, Writing QuotesBased on Keywords: negated
If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.
Edward Koch
To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.
Ayn Rand
In a way, I have simplified my life by setting priorities.
Karen Duffy