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He Writes Quotes by Joy Williams
- The writer doesn’t write for the reader. He doesn’t write for himself, either. He writes to serve…something. Somethingness. The somethingness that is sheltered by the…
- Why does the writer write? The writer writes to serve--hopeless ly he writes in the hope that he might serve--not himself and not others, but…
- It's become fashionable these days to say that the writer writes because he is not whole, he has a wound, he writes to heal it,…
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- The writer doesn’t write for the reader. He doesn’t write for himself, either. He writes to serve…something. Somethingness. The somethingness that is… — Joy Williams
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