Joy Williams Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
-
What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?
-
I've basically worked as a journalist and a writer.
-
I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job.
-
I was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills.
-
A writer has to live with a sense of honor.
-
It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.
-
I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.
-
Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.
-
When you've finished reading every last thing by a famous writer, literary convention holds that you move on to his or her letters, the DVD extras peddled by publishers.
-
I've never experienced writer's block. When it's going really well, my body temperature goes up, and I'm flushed. I get quite delirious.
-
There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.
-
I'm not a great writer.
-
If you are a good writer - and I think I am - you are able to handle any kind of group and imagine their lives.
-
I didn't know how to be a writer. But I thought, 'I can do this.'
-
I'm a very conceptual writer.
-
I don't go around thinking about regret; regret doesn't consume me as a person... I'm not certain about whether any writer, any artist, any musician, can write without regret, so I don't think perhaps it's even particularly Southern.
-
My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever.
-
There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block.
-
I'm just doing the best I can now to keep this going... trying to grow up and remain young at the same time.
-
I do have a lot of gays in my family now, but some will never come out.
-
I've done fine in this business, but I've never made quite enough money to have a family or have many options.
-
As a general rule, I don't plan to travel with my Oscars, but we may have to make an exception.
-
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.
