Quotes by : Niall Williams

Writing is a sickness only cured by writing.

It's a blindness thing, faith.

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

The parts of our lives when we write them down seem to belong in different books, by different writers....

Love ... was part imagination, its web spun as much in the dark lonely separated evenings of longing....

It is what writers do, imagine and feel the pain of others, sometimes at the expense of feeling their....

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

Human beings are not seamless smooth creations, they have insoluble parts, and the closer you look the....

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

I've read dozens of interviews and accounts that basically come down to How Poets Do It and the truth....