Joy Williams Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

  Joy Williams

  Believe, Eye, Animal

  Joy Williams (2015). “Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals”, p.1, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Cuando escriben, los escritores viven en un silencio espeluznante y clamoroso, un estado parecido a las fases avanzadas de la oración, pero sin los beneficios calmantes de ésta.

  Joy Williams

  Prayer, Writing, Silence

  Joy Williams (2015). “Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals”, p.177, Rowman & Littlefield

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

  Joy Williams

  Thinking, Young Writers, Young

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• For centuries poets, some poets, have tried to give a voice to the animals, and readers, some readers, have felt empathy and sorrow. If animals did have voices, and they could speak with the tongues of angels-at the very least with the tongues of angels-they would be unable to save themselves from us. What good would language do? Their mysterious otherness has not saved them, nor have their beautiful songs and coats and skins and shells and eyes.

  Joy Williams

  Beautiful, Song, Eye

  Joy Williams (2015). “Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals”, p.123, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Creo que tenía la misma idea que la mayoría de la gente, que es simplemente una ciudad que gira en torno a la música country. Aunque la historia de la música country es profunda y está muy arraigada en la ciudad, es un lugar que se ha ido expandiendo musical y culturalmente... Viene gente de Europa y Canadá, hay todo tipo de culturas y músicas diferentes representadas aquí. Sigue floreciendo.

  Joy Williams

  Country, Thinking, Nashville

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• 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

  Today, Language, Wanderers

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• Writers end up writing stories-or rather, stories' shadows-and they're grateful if they can, but it is not enough. Nothing the writer can do is ever enough

  Joy Williams

  Grateful, Writing, Shadow

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