William Styron Quotes about Past

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Which is worse, past or future? Neither. I will fold up my mind like a leaf and drift on this stream over the brink.

Which is worse, past or future? Neither. I will fold up my mind like a leaf and drift on this stream over the brink.

Past, Mind, Suffering

William Styron (1957). “Lie Down in Darkness: A Novel”

I discovered that I had, in the past two decades, written a far greater amount in the essay form than I remembered. Certainly I have written enough of it to demonstrate that I harbor no disdain for literary journalism or just plain journalism, under whose sponsorship I have been able to express much that has fascinated me, or alarmed me, or amused me, or otherwise engaged my attention when I was not writing a book.

William Styron

Book, Writing, Past

William Styron (1993). “This Quiet Dust and Other Writings”, Vintage

Perhaps the critics are right: this generation may not produce literature equal to that of any past generation-who cares? The writer will be dead before anyone can judge him-but he must go on writing, reflecting disorder, defeat, despair, should that be all he sees at the moment, but ever searching for the elusive love, joy, and hope-qualities which, as in the act of life itself, are best when they have to be struggled for, and are not commonly come by with much ease, either by a critic's formula or by a critic's yearning.

William Styron

Writing, Past, Judging

William Styron (2015). “My Generation: Collected Nonfiction”, p.417, Random House

William Styron Quotes about Past

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