“some things, most things in my experience, are more vivid when you haven’t seen them,” — Niall Williams Experience 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
All writers are waiting for replies. That’s what I’ve learned. Maybe all human beings are — Niall Williams Human beings 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
“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 Eliot 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 Doing 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
“...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
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
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
“He had no intention of writing. He loved reading, that was all. And he read books that he thought so far beyond… — Niall Williams Books 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
“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
“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
“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
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
“..Window panes that rattled under the lash of the wind for two months on end, rain that leaked beneath the doors, her… — Niall Williams Two months Copy Share Image
“the truth is boys can fall deeper in love than girls, they're a lot bigger and heavier and they can fall much… — Niall Williams Deeper love 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 Gusts Copy Share Image
“Fortunately, at that time, Ireland wasn’t in the world. So we weren’t in the World War. Old Roundrims came up with that.… — Niall Williams Time Copy Share Image
“Briefly everything was stopped, as if a hand had reached out and paused the world in its turning. She stood by the… — Niall Williams Two hands 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
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
“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 Boys 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
“Compelling and poetic, Four Letters of Love spirits the reader away to a magical, mist-clad coastline, inhabited by a passionate people, and… — Niall Williams Books Copy Share Image
“Neither did she realise yet that grief is a kind of glue, too, that the essence of humanity is this empathy, and… — Niall Williams Empathy 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
“He had been there long enough to have treated most of their fathers and mothers, many grandfathers and grandmothers too, and recognise… — Niall Williams Family Copy Share Image
Hope may or may not be a Thing with Feathers. But it’s definitely a Thing with Claws. — Niall Williams Claws Copy Share Image
“Dad moved in with the baffled deepsea shyness of a character just arriving in a story already underway.” — Niall Williams Dad Copy Share Image
The world is more outlandish than some people’s imaginations. — Niall Williams Creativity Copy Share Image
We tell stories. We tell stories to pass the time, to leave the world for a while, or go more deeply into… — Niall Williams Heal Copy Share Image
“To begin you must be traced into the landscape, your people and your place found. Until they are you are in the… — Niall Williams Place Wrong Copy Share Image
There are only three great puzzles in the world, the puzzle of love, the puzzle of death, and, between each of these… — Niall Williams Death Copy Share Image
