Niall Williams Quotes

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• It was as if we were at the heart of a maze. We were overwhelmed by the enormity of the tasks ahead. Mary had given…
• There are only three great puzzles in the world, the puzzle of love, the puzzle of death, and, between each of these and part of…
• When my father first took me to Ennis Library I went down among the shelves and felt company, not only the company of writers, but…
• It's a blindness thing, faith.
• Some people make you feel better about living. Some people you meet and you feel this little lift in your heart, this 'Ah', because there's…
• Hope may or may not be a Thing with Feathers. But it’s definitely a Thing with Claws.
• We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling.
• The water is this marvellous blue. It’s so blue that once you see it you realise you’ve never seen blue before. That other thing you…
• We tell stories. We tell stories to pass the time, to leave the world for a while, or go more deeply into it. We tell…
• Each family functions in their own way, by rules reinvented daily. The strangeness of each of us is somehow accommodated so that there can be…
• All writers are waiting for replies. That’s what I’ve learned. Maybe all human beings are
• The world is more outlandish than some people’s imaginations.
• When you’re different you’ve got two choices. You can stand out or you step back.
• Somehow the river is louder when you cover your ears.
• A truly extraordinary work: vivid, passionate and utterly compelling. The Sound of One Hand Clapping is raw as a wound. It opens a world that…

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