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“She wanted to be extraordinary, to possess a savage glitter.”
― Joy Williams

“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.”
― Joy Williams

“Words at night were feral things.”
― Joy Williams, Honored Guest

“Nothing we do is inevitable, but everything we do is irreversible.”
― Joy Williams

“You must stop worrying about why things happen and wonder what they mean when they do.”
― Joy Williams, The Changeling

“We are saved not because we are worthy. We are saved because we are loved.”
― Joy Williams

“Why does the writer write? The writer writes to serve--hopelessly he writes in the hope that he might serve--not himself and not others, but that great cold elemental grace that knows us.”
― Joy Williams

“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.”
― Joy Williams

“Our treatment of animals and our attitude toward them are crucial not only to any pretensions we have to ethical behavior but the humankind's intellectual and moral evolution. Which is how the human animal is meant to evolve, isn't it?”
― Joy Williams, Ill Nature

“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.”
― Joy Williams, Ill Nature