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 WilliamsIt's become fashionable these days to say that the writer writes because he is not whole, he has a wound, he writes to heal it, but who cares if the writer is not whole; of course the writer is not whole, or even particularly well.
Joy WilliamsThere is a certain type of conversation one hears only when one is drunk and it is like a dream, full of humor and threat and significance, deep significance.
Joy WilliamsI think I had the same notion most people have, which is itโs simply a town that percolates around country music. Though country-music history is deep and richly steeped throughout the city, this is a place thatโs been expanding musically and culturallyโฆPeople coming from Europe and Canada-there are all kinds of different cultures and different music being represented here. It continues to blossom.
Joy Williams