Barns Quote by Joy Williams

“We are saved not because we are worthy. We are saved because we are loved.”

— Joy Williams

There is a certain type of conversation one hears only when one is drunk and it is like a dream, full of humor and…

— Joy Williams

A side benefit of the new and developing technologies is that soon we won't have to feel guilty about the suffering and denigration of…

— Joy Williams

Good writing never soothes or comforts. It is no prescription, neither is it diversionary, although it can and should enchant while it explodes in…

— Joy Williams

Words at night were feral things.

— 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…

— Joy Williams

You have never seen such animals as these who without a sound or a sign carry you off. You race with them across the…

— Joy Williams

“Our treatment of animals and our attitude toward them are crucial not only to any pretensions we have to ethical behavior but the humankind's…

— Joy Williams

“For centuries poets, some poets, have tried to give a voice to the animals, and readers, some readers, have felt empathy and sorrow. If…

— Joy Williams

The writer trusts nothing she writes-it should be too reckless and alive for that, it should be beautiful and menacing and slightly out of…

— Joy Williams

“Down in the kitchen, I open the refrigerator. There is nothing there but the prize steer of the county fair, rearranged in neat and…

— Joy Williams

Writers are like eremites or anchorites - natural-born eremites or anchorites - who seem puzzled as to why they went up the pole or…

— Joy Williams