Joy Williams Quotes

Joy Williams — American Writer

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

There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process.

A writer starts out, I think, wanting to be a transfiguring agent, and ends up usually just making contact, contact with other human beings. This, unsurprisingly, is not enough.

It's become fashionable these days to say that the writer writes because he is not whole, he has a wound, he writes to heal it, but who cares if the writer is not whole; of course the writer is not whole, or even particularly well.

Many writers today are wanderers. There is not only an unhousedness in language - how to convey, to say nothing of converge - but an unhousedness of place.

Joy Williams Quotes

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