Quotes by : Joy Williams

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

He could almost taste the tang of that swampy air right here in his own desert parking lot and hear the....

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

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

You don't believe in Nature anymore. It's too isolated from you. You've abstracted it. It's so messy....

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,....

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....

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