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.
- Joy Williams
Say, Cares, Particularly, Heal
There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process.
- Joy Williams
Process, About, Unwholesome, Writing Process
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
Language, Nothing, Say, Converge
One is always enthralled, I think, when a young writer you're just beginning to read and comprehend dies.
- Joy Williams
Think, Always, Comprehend, Dies
Writers are like eremites or anchorites - natural-born eremites or anchorites - who seem puzzled as to why they went up the pole or into the cave in the first place.
- Joy Williams
Cave, Why, Like, Puzzled
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.
- Joy Williams
Think, Wanting, Agent, Contact
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