Quotes by : Joy Williams

There was something shameful about surviving sorrow. You were corrupted. She was corrupted. She was no....

Why does the writer write? The writer writes to serve — hopelessly he writes in the hope that he might....

That's nice, isn't it?" Edith said. "That little kid is so trusting it's kind of holy, but if his trust....

She was never going to seek gainful employment again, that was for certain. She'd remain outside the....

The writer doesn’t write for the reader. He doesn’t write for himself, either. He writes to serve…something.....

For centuries poets, some poets, have tried to give a voice to the animals, and readers, some readers,....

Katherine feels that she must have learned something about marriage from being married before that is....

hThere was something shameful about surviving sorrow. You were corrupted. She was corrupted. She was....

The writer doesn’t want to disclose or instruct or advocate, he wants to transmute and disturb. He....

Anthropomorphism originally meant the attribution of human characteristics to God. It is curious that....