Good writing never soothes or comforts. It is no prescription, neither is it diversionary, although it can and should enchant while it… — 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 trusts nothing she writes-it should be too reckless and alive for that, it should be beautiful and menacing and slightly… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
Writers are like eremites or anchorites - natural-born eremites or anchorites - who seem puzzled as to why they went up the… — Joy Williams 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
Why does the writer write? The writer writes to serve--hopeless ly he writes in the hope that he might serve--not himself and… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process. — Joy Williams 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
The story knows itself better than the writer does at some point, knows what's being said before the writer figures out how… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
It's become fashionable these days to say that the writer writes because he is not whole, he has a wound, he writes… — 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 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 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
“Why does the writer write? The writer writes to serve — hopelessly he writes in the hope that he might serve —… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
A writer loves the dark, loves it, but is always fumbling around in the light. — 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
“Why does the writer write? The writer writes to serve--hopelessly he writes in the hope that he might serve--not himself and not… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
Writers when they're writing live in a spooky, clamorous silence, a state somewhat like the advanced stages of prayer but without prayer's… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
“We are saved not because we are worthy. We are saved because we are loved.” — Joy Williams 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 humor and… — 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 denigration of… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
Good writing never soothes or comforts. It is no prescription, neither is it diversionary, although it can and should enchant while it explodes in… — 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 do is… — Joy Williams 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 across the… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
“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… — 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 sorrow. If… — Joy Williams 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 out of… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
“Down in the kitchen, I open the refrigerator. There is nothing there but the prize steer of the county fair, rearranged in neat and… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
Writers are like eremites or anchorites - natural-born eremites or anchorites - who seem puzzled as to why they went up the pole or… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
