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Joy Williams Quotes

As you grow older, you’ll find that you enjoy talking to strangers far more than to your friends Picture Quote #1

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 intellectual and moral evolution. Which is how the human animal is meant to evolve, isn’t it~? Picture Quote #1

There is a certain type of conversation one hears only when one is drunk and it is like a dream, full of humor and threat and significance, deep significance Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

One is always enthralled, I think, when a young writer you’re just beginning to read and comprehend dies Picture Quote #1

I think the writer has to be responsible to signs and dreams. If you don’t do anything with it, you lose it Picture Quote #1

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But who knows what good might come from the least of us? From the bones of old horses is made the most beautiful Prussian Blue Picture Quote #1

You don’t believe in Nature anymore. It’s too isolated from you. You’ve abstracted it. It’s so messy and damaged and sad. Your eyes glaze as you travel life’s highway past all the crushed animals and the Big Gulp cups Picture Quote #1

There is a certain type of conversation one hears only when one is drunk and it is like a dream, full of humor and threat and significance, deep significance Picture Quote #1

Of course there is nothing that cannot be done incorrectly Picture Quote #1

Words at night were feral things Picture Quote #1

There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process Picture Quote #1

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A writer loves the dark, loves it, but is always fumbling around in the light Picture Quote #1

Nothing the writer can do is ever enough Picture Quote #1

Nothing we do is inevitable, but everything we do is irreversible Picture Quote #1

A writer starts out, I think, wanting to be a transfiguring agent, and ends up usually just making contact, contact with other human beings. This, unsurprisingly, is not enough Picture Quote #1

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, but who cares if the writer is not whole; of course the writer is not whole, or even particularly well Picture Quote #1

I believe in guilt. There’s not enough guilt around these days for my taste Picture Quote #1

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One is always enthralled, I think, when a young writer you’re just beginning to read and comprehend dies Picture Quote #1

I think the writer has to be responsible to signs and dreams. If you don’t do anything with it, you lose it Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

As you grow older, you’ll find that you enjoy talking to strangers far more than to your friends Picture Quote #1

The story knows itself better than the writer does at some point, knows what’s being said before the writer figures out how to say it Picture Quote #1

You have never seen such animals as these who without a sound or a sign carry you off. You race with them across the long familiar ground that in that moment seems so glorious, so charged with beauty, strange. In their jaws you are carried so effortlessly, with such great care that you think it will never end, you long for it not to end, and then you wake and know that, indeed, they have not brought you back Picture Quote #1

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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 reader’s face Picture Quote #1

You must stop worrying about why things happen and wonder what they mean when they do Picture Quote #1

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As you grow older, you’ll find that you enjoy talking to strangers far more than to your friends. (Joy Williams Quotes) 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 intellectual and moral evolution. Which is how the human animal is meant to evolve, isn’t it~? (Joy Williams Quotes) There is a certain type of conversation one hears only when one is drunk and it is like a dream, full of humor and threat and significance, deep significance. (Joy Williams Quotes) 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. (Joy Williams Quotes) One is always enthralled, I think, when a young writer you’re just beginning to read and comprehend dies. (Joy Williams Quotes) I think the writer has to be responsible to signs and dreams. If you don’t do anything with it, you lose it. (Joy Williams Quotes) But who knows what good might come from the least of us? From the bones of old horses is made the most beautiful Prussian Blue (Joy Williams Quotes) You don’t believe in Nature anymore. It’s too isolated from you. You’ve abstracted it. It’s so messy and damaged and sad. Your eyes glaze as you travel life’s highway past all the crushed animals and the Big Gulp cups (Joy Williams Quotes) There is a certain type of conversation one hears only when one is drunk and it is like a dream, full of humor and threat and significance, deep significance (Joy Williams Quotes) Of course there is nothing that cannot be done incorrectly (Joy Williams Quotes) Words at night were feral things (Joy Williams Quotes) There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process (Joy Williams Quotes) A writer loves the dark, loves it, but is always fumbling around in the light (Joy Williams Quotes) Nothing the writer can do is ever enough (Joy Williams Quotes) Nothing we do is inevitable, but everything we do is irreversible (Joy Williams Quotes) A writer starts out, I think, wanting to be a transfiguring agent, and ends up usually just making contact, contact with other human beings. This, unsurprisingly, is not enough (Joy Williams Quotes) 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, but who cares if the writer is not whole; of course the writer is not whole, or even particularly well (Joy Williams Quotes) I believe in guilt. There’s not enough guilt around these days for my taste (Joy Williams Quotes) One is always enthralled, I think, when a young writer you’re just beginning to read and comprehend dies (Joy Williams Quotes) I think the writer has to be responsible to signs and dreams. If you don’t do anything with it, you lose it (Joy Williams Quotes) 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 (Joy Williams Quotes) As you grow older, you’ll find that you enjoy talking to strangers far more than to your friends (Joy Williams Quotes) The story knows itself better than the writer does at some point, knows what’s being said before the writer figures out how to say it (Joy Williams Quotes) You have never seen such animals as these who without a sound or a sign carry you off. You race with them across the long familiar ground that in that moment seems so glorious, so charged with beauty, strange. In their jaws you are carried so effortlessly, with such great care that you think it will never end, you long for it not to end, and then you wake and know that, indeed, they have not brought you back (Joy Williams Quotes) 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 reader’s face (Joy Williams Quotes) You must stop worrying about why things happen and wonder what they mean when they do (Joy Williams Quotes)