Best Quotes by Joy Williams (Top 8)

  1. You must stop worrying about why things happen and wonder what they mean when they do.
  2. There is a certain type of conversation one hears only when one is drunk and it is like a dream, full of humor and threat and significance, deep significance.
  3. Words at night were feral things.
  4. Nothing we do is inevitable, but everything we do is irreversible.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. The writer doesn't write for the reader. He doesn't write for himself, either. He writes to serve"¦something. Somethingness. The somethingness that is sheltered by the wings of nothingness "” those exquisite, enveloping, protecting wings.
  8. Good writing never soothes or comforts. It is no prescription, neither is it diversionary, although it can and should enchant while it explodes in the reader's face.