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'Melancholy' is prettier than 'depression'; it connotes a kind of nocturnal grace. Makes one feel more innocently beleaguered.

But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing.

I'm not writing just about melancholy stuff anymore, I made a point to cover a wide range of emotions.

For feel-good fiction to work, there has to be an element of darkness.

Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end.

There is a melancholy that stems from greatness.

I've had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.

I actually think sadness and darkness can be very beautiful and healing.

I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.