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Writing Quotes by Joy Williams
- One writes to find words' meanings.
- Good writing never soothes or comforts. It is no prescription, neither is it diversionary, although it can and should enchant while it explodes in the…
- 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…
- A writer loves the dark, loves it, but is always fumbling around in the light.
- 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.
- 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…
- There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process.
- 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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- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
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