“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… — Joy Williams Certain 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
Good writing never soothes or comforts. It is no prescription, neither is it diversionary, although it can and should enchant while it… — Joy Williams Books 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 Can do 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
“Our treatment of animals and our attitude toward them are crucial not only to any pretensions we have to ethical behavior but… — Joy Williams Animal - rights 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
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
“Down in the kitchen, I open the refrigerator. There is nothing there but the prize steer of the county fair, rearranged in… — Joy Williams County fair 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 Born 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 Agents 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
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 Cold Copy Share Image
Nothing we do is inevitable, but everything we do is irreversible. — Joy Williams Inevitable 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
“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 Destructive 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 Being responsible 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 Barns 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
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 Doe Copy Share Image
