“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
One is always enthralled, I think, when a young writer you're just beginning to read and comprehend dies. — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
A writer loves the dark, loves it, but is always fumbling around in the light. — Joy Williams Dark 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
“That's nice, isn't it?" Edith said. "That little kid is so trusting it's kind of holy, but if his trust were misplaced… — Joy Williams Holiness Copy Share Image
“Sam and Elizabeth met as people usually meet. Suddenly, there was a deceptive light in the darkness. A light that reminded the… — Joy Williams Darkness 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
“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 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 Care 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
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
“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 Writer Copy Share Image
“At the point in his lecture where he was saying that the representative element in a work of art is always irrelevant,… — Joy Williams Art Copy Share Image
“He could almost taste the tang of that swampy air right here in his own desert parking lot and hear the calls… — Joy Williams Crows Copy Share Image
“So many times in a single day we glimpse a view beyond the apparent. Write those moments down. They might not speak… — Joy Williams Poetry 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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
I believe in guilt. There's not enough guilt around these days for my taste. — 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
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
You must stop worrying about why things happen and wonder what they mean when they do. — Joy Williams Fear Copy Share Image
