William Styron
William Styron
William Clark Styron Jr.was an American novelist and essayist who won major literary awards for his work...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth11 June 1925
CityNewport News, VA
CountryUnited States of America
silly writing today-life
And when you get an eminent journal like Time magazine complaining, as it often has, that to the young writers of today life seems short on rewards and that what they write is a product of their own neuroses, in its silly way the magazine is merely stating the status quo and obvious truth. The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads.
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It did not occur to me that there would be many difficulties to impede my ambition. . . .
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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.
american-novelist
And so we came forth, and once again beheld the stars.
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A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.
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They are the constants of life, at the core of life, along with nice little delights that come along every now and then . . . we all have them.
america fight seems various
In America there seems to be an idea that writing is one big cat-and-dog fight between the various parishioners of the craft.
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I could compose on white sheets, in longhand, but it would be an added handicap. . . .
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A good book should leave you... slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.
book exhausted good leave lives reading several slightly
A good book should leave you... slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.
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The madness of depression is the antithesis of violence. It is a storm indeed, but a storm of murk. Soon evident are the slowed-down responses, near paralysis, psychic energy throttled back close to zero. Ultimately, the body is affected and feels sapped, drained.
witty voice giving
Like Hemingway and Faulkner, but in an entirely different mode, Fitzgerald had that singular quality without which a writer is not really a writer at all, and that is a voice, a distinct and identifiable voice. This is really not the same thing as a style; a style can be emulated, a voice cannot, and the witty, rueful, elegaic voice gives his work its bright authenticity.
struggle skins teeth
In the absence of hope we must still struggle to survive, and so we do-by the skin of our teeth.
depression light weather
The weather of Depression is unmodulated, its light a brownout.