William Styron

Naissance 1925 · Décès 2006

Originaire de Newport News, Virginia, United States · Nationalité : United States · Écrit de la fiction et des essais

Citations

“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.”
Interview in Writers at Work, First Series 1958 , edited by George PlimptonEn anglais
“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.”
Writers at Work 1958En anglais
“I had now reached that phase of the disorder where all sense of hope had vanished, along with the idea of a futurity; my brain, in thrall to its outlaw hormones, had become less an organ of thought than an instrument registering, minute by minute, varying degrees of its own suffering.”
Darkness VisibleEn anglais
“I raise my eyes upward. There alone amidst the blue, steadfast, unmoving, fiery marvel of brightness, shines the morning star. Never has that star seemed so radiant, and I stand gazing at it and do not move though the chill of the damp floor imprisons my feet in piercing icebound pain.”
The Confessions of Nat Turner, Part IVEn anglais
“The most profound statement yet made about Auschwitz was not a statement at all, but a response. / The query: “At Auschwitz, tell me, where was God?” / And the answer: “Where was man?””
Sophie's Choice, Chapter 16En anglais

Les livres de William Styron dans l'ordre

Les livres de William Styron dans l'ordre de parution, de Lie Down in Darkness (1951) à Depression (2017).