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 the Big Gulp cups. Joy Williams More Quotes by Joy Williams More Quotes From Joy Williams I believe in guilt. There's not enough guilt around these days for my taste. Joy Williams guilt taste believe For centuries poets, some poets, have tried to give a voice to the animals, and readers, some readers, have felt empathy and sorrow. If animals did have voices, and they could speak with the tongues of angels-at the very least with the tongues of angels-they would be unable to save themselves from us. What good would language do? Their mysterious otherness has not saved them, nor have their beautiful songs and coats and skins and shells and eyes. Joy Williams eye song beautiful I think I had the same notion most people have, which is it’s simply a town that percolates around country music. Though country-music history is deep and richly steeped throughout the city, this is a place that’s been expanding musically and culturally…People coming from Europe and Canada-there are all kinds of different cultures and different music being represented here. It continues to blossom. Joy Williams nashville country thinking 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 Joy Williams grateful shadow writing A writer loves the dark, loves it, but is always fumbling around in the light. Joy Williams light dark writing Many writers today are wanderers. There is not only an unhousedness in language - how to convey, to say nothing of converge - but an unhousedness of place. Joy Williams wanderers language today As you grow older, you'll find that you enjoy talking to strangers far more than to your friends. Joy Williams enjoy stranger talking 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 silence prayer writing One is always enthralled, I think, when a young writer you're just beginning to read and comprehend dies. Joy Williams young-writers young thinking Nothing the writer can do is ever enough. Joy Williams enough can-do I think the writer has to be responsible to signs and dreams. If you don't do anything with it, you lose it. Joy Williams responsible dream thinking A side benefit of the new and developing technologies is that soon we won't have to feel guilty about the suffering and denigration of the animals because we will have made them up. Joy Williams technology suffering animal
