91 Quotes by Joy Williams

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.

A writer loves the dark, loves it, but is always fumbling around in the light.

Why does the writer write? The writer writes to serve – hopeless ly he writes in the hope that he might serve – not himself and not others, but that great cold elemental grace that knows us.

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

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.

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

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

I can’t understand why God made every tiny snowflake different and all these men the same.

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.