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> [One writes to find words' meanings.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joy-williams/one-writes-to-find-words-meanings/)

[Joy Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joy-williams/)

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## More by Joy Williams

> [“We are saved not because we are worthy. We are saved because we are loved.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joy-williams/we-are-saved-not-because-we-are-worthy-we-are-saved-because-we-are/)

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> [There is a certain type of conversation one hears only when one is drunk and it is like a dream, full of humor and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joy-williams/there-is-a-certain-type-of-conversation-one-hears-only-when-one-is/)

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> [A side benefit of the new and developing technologies is that soon we won't have to feel guilty about the suffering and denigration of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joy-williams/a-side-benefit-of-the-new-and-developing-technologies-is-that-soon-we/)

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> [Good writing never soothes or comforts. It is no prescription, neither is it diversionary, although it can and should enchant while it explodes in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joy-williams/good-writing-never-soothes-or-comforts-it-is-no-prescription-neither/)

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> [Words at night were feral things.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joy-williams/words-at-night-were-feral-things/)

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> [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 do is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joy-williams/writers-end-up-writing-stories-or-rather-stories-shadows-and-they-re/)

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> [You have never seen such animals as these who without a sound or a sign carry you off. You race with them across the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joy-williams/you-have-never-seen-such-animals-as-these-who-without-a-sound-or-a/)

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> [“Our treatment of animals and our attitude toward them are crucial not only to any pretensions we have to ethical behavior but the humankind's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joy-williams/our-treatment-of-animals-and-our-attitude-toward-them-are-crucial-not/)

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> [“For centuries poets, some poets, have tried to give a voice to the animals, and readers, some readers, have felt empathy and sorrow. If…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joy-williams/for-centuries-poets-some-poets-have-tried-to-give-a-voice-to-the/)

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> [The writer trusts nothing she writes-it should be too reckless and alive for that, it should be beautiful and menacing and slightly out of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joy-williams/the-writer-trusts-nothing-she-writes-it-should-be-too-reckless-and/)

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> [“Down in the kitchen, I open the refrigerator. There is nothing there but the prize steer of the county fair, rearranged in neat and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joy-williams/down-in-the-kitchen-i-open-the-refrigerator-there-is-nothing-there/)

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> [Writers are like eremites or anchorites - natural-born eremites or anchorites - who seem puzzled as to why they went up the pole or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joy-williams/writers-are-like-eremites-or-anchorites-natural-born-eremites-or/)

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> [A writer starts out, I think, wanting to be a transfiguring agent, and ends up usually just making contact, contact with other human beings.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joy-williams/a-writer-starts-out-i-think-wanting-to-be-a-transfiguring-agent-and/)

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> [But who knows what good might come from the least of us? From the bones of old horses is made the most beautiful Prussian…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joy-williams/but-who-knows-what-good-might-come-from-the-least-of-us-from-the/)

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> [Why does the writer write? The writer writes to serve--hopeless ly he writes in the hope that he might serve--not himself and not others,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joy-williams/why-does-the-writer-write-the-writer-writes-to-serve-hopeless-ly-he/)

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