Words at night were feral things. ✨ Joy Williams (2016). The Visiting …

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Words at night were feral things. ✨ Joy Williams (2016). The Visiting Privilege, p.247, Profile Books
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Writers when they're writing live in a spooky, clamorous silence, a state somewhat like the advanced stages of prayer but without prayer's calming benefits. ✨ Joy Williams (2015). Ill Nature: Rants a … ▶
Why does the writer write? The writer writes to serve--hopeless ly he writes in the hope that he might serve--not himself and not others, but that great cold elemental grace that knows us. ✨ Joy Will … ▶
You don't believe in Nature anymore. It's too isolated from you. You've abstracted it. It's so messy and damaged and sad. Your eyes glaze as you travel life's highway past all the crushed animals and … ▶
You have never seen such animals as these who without a sound or a sign carry you off. You race with them across the long familiar ground that in that moment seems so glorious, so charged with beauty … ▶
Nothing the writer can do is ever enough. ✨ Joy Williams (2015). Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals, p.178, Rowman & Littlefield

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