91 Quotes by Joy Williams

It's really been rough. We just moved in a house with me and my kid, and everything is gone.

I think the writer has to be responsible to signs and dreams. If you don't do anything with it, you lose it.

Did the walls of the barn start to tremble With a glory they could not contain? Did anyone wake with the feeling Of peace that they could not explain? Oh the love must have been overwhelming As it warmed everyone in it's flow For all of the earth is still telling of 2000 Decembers ago.

I believe in guilt. There's not enough guilt around these days for my taste.

As you grow older, you'll find that you enjoy talking to strangers far more than to your friends.

One is always enthralled, I think, when a young writer you're just beginning to read and comprehend dies.

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.

Nothing the writer can do is ever enough.

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.