“That’s the thing about boys. Maybe just Irish boys. Boys have No Go Areas, they have an entire geography of places you… — Niall Williams Fall apart Copy Share Image
“If I am alive this is my book, and my father lives now in the afterlife that is a book, a thing… — Niall Williams Book Copy Share Image
“There was every reason to feel natural joy in the world, but for the one that makes it accessible. When your spirit… — Niall Williams Anticipation Copy Share Image
When my father first took me to Ennis Library I went down among the shelves and felt company, not only the company… — Niall Williams Book Copy Share Image
When you’re different you’ve got two choices. You can stand out or you step back. — Niall Williams Choices Copy Share Image
“This is my father’s story. I am writing it to find him. But to get where you’re going, you have to first… — niall williams Copy Share Image
We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling. — Niall Williams Alive Copy Share Image
“The skies we slept under were too uncertain for forecasts. They came and went on the moody gusts of the Atlantic, bringing… — Niall Williams Copy Share Image
“...silently gazing beneath the stars. And in that fall of light from heaven to earth perhaps all our stories were told, all… — Niall Williams Past present Copy Share Image
“What is the meaning in anything? What is the use? Why don't you just burn the world up? Why don't you just… — Niall Williams Learn from my mistakes Copy Share Image
“The basis of the Philosophy of Impossible Standard is that no matter how hard you try you can’t ever be good enough.… — Niall Williams Good enough Copy Share Image
Some people make you feel better about living. Some people you meet and you feel this little lift in your heart, this… — Niall Williams Beautiful Copy Share Image
The water is this marvellous blue. It’s so blue that once you see it you realise you’ve never seen blue before. That… — Niall Williams Blue Copy Share Image
“I love the feel of a book. I love the touch and smell and sound of the pages. I love the handling… — Niall Williams Book Copy Share Image
“Doing nothing at all is often the very wisest thing ... as the world is a ball and is turning and everything… — Niall Williams Copy Share Image
A truly extraordinary work: vivid, passionate and utterly compelling. The Sound of One Hand Clapping is raw as a wound. It opens… — Niall Williams Achieve Copy Share Image
All writers are waiting for replies. That’s what I’ve learned. Maybe all human beings are — Niall Williams Human beings Copy Share Image
“some things, most things in my experience, are more vivid when you haven’t seen them,” — Niall Williams Copy Share Image
Each family functions in their own way, by rules reinvented daily. The strangeness of each of us is somehow accommodated so that… — Niall Williams Family Copy Share Image
“when summer was still a word plump and generous and there was actual sunshine and time was impossibly deliciously luxuriously long and… — Niall Williams Summer Copy Share Image
“Stephen did not intend to go to the concert, not because he disapproved or wanted to distance himself from the notion of… — Niall Williams St Clare Copy Share Image
