Good writing never soothes or comforts. It is no prescription, neither…

Joy Williams
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Good writing never soothes or comforts. It is no prescription, neither is it diversionary, although it can and should enchant while it explodes in the reader's face. ✨ Joy Williams (2015). Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals, p.181, Rowman & Littlefield
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The writer doesn’t write for the reader. He doesn’t write for himself, either. He writes to serve…something. Somethingness. The somethingness that is sheltered by the wings of nothingness — those exq … ▶
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
Writers end up writing stories-or rather, stories' shadows-and they're grateful if they can, but it is not enough. Nothing the writer can do is ever enough
The story knows itself better than the writer does at some point, knows what's being said before the writer figures out how to say it.
As you grow older, you'll find that you enjoy talking to strangers far more than to your friends. ✨ Joy Williams (2016). The Visiting Privilege, p.36, Profile Books

Good writing never soothes or comforts. It is no prescription, neither is it diversionary, although it can and should enchant while it explodes in the reader's face. ✨ Joy Williams (2015). Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals, p.181, Rowman & Littlefield

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