You must stop worrying about why things happen and wonder what they mean when they do. — Joy Williams Fear Copy Share Image
I think the writer has to be responsible to signs and dreams. If you don't do anything with it, you lose it. — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
I believe in guilt. There's not enough guilt around these days for my taste. — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
But who knows what good might come from the least of us? From the bones of old horses is made the most… — Joy Williams Beautiful Copy Share Image
“We are saved not because we are worthy. We are saved because we are loved.” — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
“I can’t understand why God made every tiny snowflake different and all these men the same.” — Joy Williams Snowflake Copy Share Image
As you grow older, you'll find that you enjoy talking to strangers far more than to your friends. — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
A side benefit of the new and developing technologies is that soon we won't have to feel guilty about the suffering and… — Joy Williams Animal Copy Share Image
A writer starts out, I think, wanting to be a transfiguring agent, and ends up usually just making contact, contact with other… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
“Alice heard a woman say, 'Before I start writing I feel affectionate, interested, and frustrated. In that order. Afterwards I feel relieved,… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
Writers end up writing stories-or rather, stories' shadows-and they're grateful if they can, but it is not enough. Nothing the writer can… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
The writer doesn’t write for the reader. He doesn’t write for himself, either. He writes to serve…something. Somethingness. The somethingness that is… — Joy Williams Books Copy Share Image
There is a certain type of conversation one hears only when one is drunk and it is like a dream, full of… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
Many writers today are wanderers. There is not only an unhousedness in language - how to convey, to say nothing of converge… — Joy Williams Language Copy Share Image
You don't believe in Nature anymore. It's too isolated from you. You've abstracted it. It's so messy and damaged and sad. Your… — Joy Williams Animal Copy Share Image
I think I had the same notion most people have, which is it’s simply a town that percolates around country music. Though… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
What a story is, is devious. It pretends transparency, forthrightness. It engages with ordinary people, ordinary matters, recognizable stuff. But this is… — Joy Williams Catastrophe Copy Share Image
“Regarding life, it is much the best to think that the experiences we have are necessary for us. It is by means… — Joy Williams Emotional pain Copy Share Image
The writer trusts nothing she writes-it should be too reckless and alive for that, it should be beautiful and menacing and slightly… — Joy Williams Alive Copy Share Image
“She was never going to seek gainful employment again, that was for certain. She'd remain outside the public sector. She'd be an… — Joy Williams Art Copy Share Image
You have never seen such animals as these who without a sound or a sign carry you off. You race with them… — Joy Williams Animal Copy Share Image
Did the walls of the barn start to tremble With a glory they could not contain? Did anyone wake with the feeling… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
For centuries poets, some poets, have tried to give a voice to the animals, and readers, some readers, have felt empathy and… — Joy Williams Angel Copy Share Image
Someone once told me a story about long term relationships. To think of them as a continent to explore. I could spend… — Joy Williams Adventure Copy Share Image
“Why does the writer write? The writer writes to serve — hopelessly he writes in the hope that he might serve —… — Joy Williams Hope Copy Share Image
“I DON'T WANT to talk about me, of course, but it seems as though far too much attention has been lavished on… — Joy Williams Adventure Copy Share Image
“Mornings, out in the garden, she would, at times, read aloud from one of her many overdue library books. Dew as radiant… — Joy Williams Beautiful day Copy Share Image
“Anthropomorphism originally meant the attribution of human characteristics to God. It is curious that the word is now used almost exclusively to… — joy williams Copy Share Image
“For centuries poets, some poets, have tried to give a voice to the animals, and readers, some readers, have felt empathy and… — Joy Williams Animals Copy Share Image
A writer loves the dark, loves it, but is always fumbling around in the light. — Joy Williams Dark Copy Share Image
One is always enthralled, I think, when a young writer you're just beginning to read and comprehend dies. — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
“What is the difference between being not yet born and having lived, being now dead?” — Joy Williams Birth Copy Share Image
There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process. — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
