Quote by Niall Williams

Somehow the river is louder when you cover your ears.

— Niall Williams

“That’s the thing about boys. Maybe just Irish boys. Boys have No Go Areas, they have an entire geography of places you can’t go…

— Niall Williams

“If I am alive this is my book, and my father lives now in the afterlife that is a book, a thing not vague…

— Niall Williams

“There was every reason to feel natural joy in the world, but for the one that makes it accessible. When your spirit is uneasy,…

— Niall Williams

When my father first took me to Ennis Library I went down among the shelves and felt company, not only the company of writers,…

— Niall Williams

When you’re different you’ve got two choices. You can stand out or you step back.

— Niall Williams

“This is my father’s story. I am writing it to find him. But to get where you’re going, you have to first go backwards.…

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We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling.

— Niall Williams

“The skies we slept under were too uncertain for forecasts. They came and went on the moody gusts of the Atlantic, bringing half a…

— Niall Williams

It's a blindness thing, faith.

— Niall Williams

“...silently gazing beneath the stars. And in that fall of light from heaven to earth perhaps all our stories were told, all actions of…

— Niall Williams

“What is the meaning in anything? What is the use? Why don't you just burn the world up? Why don't you just decide that's…

— Niall Williams