Joy Williams Quotes

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

Joy Williams

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• I was the kid who never won the races. I never jumped the highest. I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • High
  • Never
  • Kid

• With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.

  

  Ice Cube
  • People
  • Different
  • Team

• Y'know what? This is what I go by: It doesn't matter how good-looking a guy is, it just depends on his personality. If a guy can make you laugh and make fun of you, then that's what would win me over. So, yeah.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Guy

• You couldn't find a more stylized boxer than Sugar Ray Leonard.

  

  Usher
  • You
  • Find
  • Sugar

• I like power and I like to use it.

  

  Sam Rayburn
  • Power
  • Like
  • Use

• I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • World
  • Rest
  • New York

• You cannot write a book unless it is totally inhabiting your imagination and you are totally engrossed with it. Which is a kind word for obsession.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • Book
  • Kind
  • Imagination

• In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn't make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the human condition.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Up
  • Story
  • Because

• At the heart of every great movie is conflict. It's the same with a meeting. There should be conflict and tension.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Great
  • Heart
  • Movie

• It's such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that really, for new ways of translating the beauty of it.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Beauty

• My own conviction is, confirmed by a very close study of parochial registers, that some of the very best blood in England is to be found among the tradesmen of our county towns.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Best
  • Study
  • Blood

• With reporting, if you work hard, you can usually pull something out. But writing humor doesn't respond to working hard, necessarily. I mean, you could just sit there and look at the page all day and maybe something will come.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Day

• Tinashe doing 'I Wanna Get Better' - it's a really personal song, and it was hard for me to imagine anyone else doing it, but stylistically her and I are so incredibly different that I was fascinated to hear what she'd do with it, and I completely loved it. It just felt like the different expression of a song that, to me, was so stamped in one way.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Different
  • She
  • Song

• If I don't go to the gym for a week, I just get thinner and thinner.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Week
  • Gym
  • Just

• I'd love to write with some people from the U.K., like Ed Sheeran, Emeli Sande... there's a very long list.

  

  Fleur East
  • People
  • Like
  • Write

• We have to stop this violence. We have to make the political nature of the violence clear, that the violence we experience in our own homes is not a personal family matter, it's a public and political problem. It's a way that women are kept in line, kept in our places.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Women
  • Family
  • Experience

• I don't want to live my life to entertain other people. I have other things that I'd like to do.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Age
  • Lover
  • Comes

• I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to draw.

  

  Len Wein
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Myself

• The American people don't read.

  

  Allen Dulles
  • American
  • Read

• In the 5 years, well over 60,000 American families have been broken apart by the absence of insurance because the only way for parents to get treatment for their children is to turn the custody of those children over to the State.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • Children
  • American
  • Parents

• Growing up with my dad, whenever I wanted to try something, he would let me try it but he wouldn't let me give up on it. If soccer was too tough and I said, 'I'm going to quit,' he'd be like, 'No, you're going to try everything and keep going at it.'

  

  Carlos Pena, Jr.
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Dad

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

  

  Joy Williams
  • Writer
  • Read
  • Dies