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Writers Quotes by Joy Williams
- Writers end up writing stories-or rather, stories' shadows-and they're grateful if they can, but it is not enough. Nothing the writer can do is ever…
- Writers when they're writing live in a spooky, clamorous silence, a state somewhat like the advanced stages of prayer but without prayer's calming benefits.
- Many writers today are wanderers. There is not only an unhousedness in language - how to convey, to say nothing of converge - but an…
- Writers are like eremites or anchorites - natural-born eremites or anchorites - who seem puzzled as to why they went up the pole or into…
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