Niall Williams Quotes

Ireland, Author
1958

Niall Williams is an Irish author. He studied English and French literature at University College Dublin before graduating with a master's degree in Modern American Literature.

It's a blindness thing, faith.

Niall Williams
- Faith
- Blindness
Human beings are not seamless smooth creations, they have insoluble parts, and the closer you look the more mysterious they become.

Niall Williams

People are odd creations, this is my theme.

Niall Williams
- Odd
- Theme
- Creations
Hope may or may not be a Thing with Feathers. But it’s definitely a Thing with Claws.

Niall Williams
- Hope
- Feathers
- Claws
We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling.

Niall Williams
- Stories
- Alive
- Tell
You can't be beautiful and a writer, because to be a writer you have to be the one doing the looking; if you're beautiful people will be looking at you.

Niall Williams
- Beautiful
- Writer
- Looking
We tell stories. We tell stories to pass the time, to leave the world for a while, or go more deeply into it. We tell stories to heal the pain of living.

Niall Williams
- Pain
- Stories
- Living
Men are private. This I have learned. They are whole continents of privacy; you can only go to the borders; you can look in but you cannot enter.

Niall Williams
- Men
- Privacy
- Borders