Joy Williams Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
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Once I finished 'Sicario,' I knew I wanted to follow it up with 'Hell or High Water.'
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I'm hardly macho. I present myself as very unnoticeable.
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I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.
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I get cold - really cold - when I travel.
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I keep trying to convince people that I'm OK to wrestle, and I think that's probably the hard part. A lot of times I'm trying to convince myself, too, that I can wrestle. It's really hard, because the concussion issue is very subjective, and that's the part that a lot of people don't understand.
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I was always a bit different. I had a very happy childhood, but I could never hang on to mates.
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But eradicating corruption is not enough to sustain a country.
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Nowadays, people have an open mind vis-a-vis new artists like Meghan Trainor, Nico & Vinz, Hozier - there are hits coming out of everywhere.
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I love London. I would move here. I like British people; everybody is so down to earth.
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My red patent-leather, 5-inch peep-toe slingbacks are not mere shoes. They are fine art. They make me feel tall. They make me feel sexy. They make me feel powerful. I call them my 'special-day shoes.'
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I never really sang for anyone, apart from in the shower or with my best friend. I was shy. I didn't want to take voice lessons. I knew I could sing, but I just didn't tell anyone.
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Education confers humility, endows one with the authority to command, that will entitle one to affluence. With the help of charity and compassion this affluence can be made fruitful, and by this means, happiness in this world and peace in the next can be won.
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Aphorisms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling.
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I could still eat a cheeseburger if I wanted to. I just can't have them every day.
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Think it's so unfair when people think that you're not a "real artist" unless you're getting paid for it....I personally know so many poets that work a 9 to 5 in a cubicle and come home and write poetry. Their poetry is just as powerful and moving as anything that I've ever written, if not more.
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I love to read. And right now I'm on my last hundred pages of 'The Corrections' by Jonathan Franzen, and I really enjoyed it. His writing is just - he's one of those writers where you just go, 'There are people just meant to be novel writers.'
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Alafair Burke is one of the finest young crime writers working today.
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The great wisdom for writers, perhaps for everybody, is to come to understand to be at one with their own tempo.
