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

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

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

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

Joy Williams quotes: Pearl suspected God didn't love human beings much. She suspected that what He loved most was Nothingness.

Pearl suspected God didn't love human beings much. She suspected that what He loved most was Nothingness.

Joy Williams quotes: Have a nice remainder of the rest of your life.

Have a nice remainder of the rest of your life.

Joy Williams quotes: Love is further than death.

Love is further than death.

Joy Williams quotes: That's what Alice liked about the desert, its constant relentless conflict with itself. The desert was unexpectedly beautiful and horrible at once.

That's what Alice liked about the desert, its constant relentless conflict with itself. The desert was unexpectedly beautiful and horrible at once.

Joy Williams quotes: The Lord was in line at the pharmacy counter waiting to get His shingles shot.

The Lord was in line at the pharmacy counter waiting to get His shingles shot.

Joy Williams quotes: 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.

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.

Joy Williams quotes: Shooting felt good. Joy consists in this, after all, the increase of one's power.

Shooting felt good. Joy consists in this, after all, the increase of one's power.

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

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

Joy Williams quotes: Nothing we do is inevitable, but everything we do is irreversible.

Nothing we do is inevitable, but everything we do is irreversible.

Joy Williams quotes: Clouds aren't as pretty as they used to be. That's a known fact.

Clouds aren't as pretty as they used to be. That's a known fact.

Joy Williams quotes: One writes to find words' meanings.

One writes to find words' meanings.

Joy Williams quotes: Every living thing suffers transfiguration. Yes, until the creation of Eve, Adam had fondled beasts.

Every living thing suffers transfiguration. Yes, until the creation of Eve, Adam had fondled beasts.

Joy Williams quotes: He had dreamed, he had dreamed...it left him.

He had dreamed, he had dreamed...it left him.

Joy Williams quotes: That's nice, isn't it?" Edith said. "That little kid is so trusting it's kind of holy, but if his trust were misplaced it would really be holy.

That's nice, isn't it?" Edith said. "That little kid is so trusting it's kind of holy, but if his trust were misplaced it would really be holy.

Joy Williams quotes: There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process.

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

Joy Williams quotes: You must stop worrying about why things happen and wonder what they mean when they do.

You must stop worrying about why things happen and wonder what they mean when they do.

Joy Williams quotes: Of course there is nothing that cannot be done incorrectly.

Of course there is nothing that cannot be done incorrectly.

Joy Williams quotes: Memory is the resurrection. The dead move among us the living in our memory and that is the resurrection.

Memory is the resurrection. The dead move among us the living in our memory and that is the resurrection.

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

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

Joy Williams quotes: I believe that God is (and must be) a transcendent presence in any worthy work of art.

I believe that God is (and must be) a transcendent presence in any worthy work of art.

Joy Williams quotes: She wanted to be extraordinary, to possess a savage glitter.

She wanted to be extraordinary, to possess a savage glitter.

Joy Williams quotes: You should have changed if you wanted to remain yourself but you were afraid to change.

You should have changed if you wanted to remain yourself but you were afraid to change.

Joy Williams quotes: That was the problem with public art, it risked great ridicule.

That was the problem with public art, it risked great ridicule.

Joy Williams quotes: Imagination only fails us in the end, when the stories we tell ourselves have to stop.

Imagination only fails us in the end, when the stories we tell ourselves have to stop.

Joy Williams quotes: Words at night were feral things.

Words at night were feral things.

Joy Williams quotes: We are saved not because we are worthy. We are saved because we are loved.

We are saved not because we are worthy. We are saved because we are loved.

Joy Williams quotes: Silence was a thing entrusted to the animals, the girl thought. Many things that human words have harmed are restored again by the silence of animals

Silence was a thing entrusted to the animals, the girl thought. Many things that human words have harmed are restored again by the silence of animals

Joy Williams quotes: A writer loves the dark, loves it, but is always fumbling around in the light.

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

Joy Williams quotes: 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.

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.