Joy Williams Quotes

A writer starts out, I think, wanting to be a transfiguring agent, and ends up usually just making contact, contact with other human beings. This, unsurprisingly, is not enough.

Joy Williams

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 11, 1944

Topics

ThinkEnoughHumanContactOutUp

I have always viewed the mission of Wikipedia to be much bigger than just creating a killer website. We're doing that of course, and having a lot of fun doing it, but a big part of what motivates us is our larger mission to affect the world in a positive way.

Jimmy Wales

PositiveFunWorldDoingMission

On any given vote, on any given day, a smart senator who has taken a bold or controversial position can reach far more media outlets between the elevator and the Senate chamber than he or she could garner in a full press conference back home.

Jim Webb

HomeDaySmartReachMediaBack

Being a mum changed me for the better.

Jenny Frost

MeBetterBeingChangedMum

Telecom is a dramatic success in India and our view is, respecting the political process, and respecting the fact that these are sovereign decisions, is that, approaching India as a friend.

John W. Snow

SuccessFriendDecisionsPolitical

I love history, so I do a lot of movies about history.

Steven Spielberg

LoveHistoryMoviesAboutI Love

I think people would want to see Tracy Morgan host 'Saturday Night Live.'

Tracy Morgan

LivePeopleNightThinkSaturday

The best way to avoid falling prey to the opinions of others is to realize that other people's opinions are just that - opinions. Regardless of how great or terrible they think you are, that's only their opinion. Your true self-worth comes from within.

Travis Bradberry

GreatBestPeopleOpinionThinkYou

Skimming has led, I believe, to a tendency to go to the sources that seem the simplest, most reduced, most familiar, and least cognitively challenging. I think that leads people to accept truly false news without examining it, without being analytical.

Maryanne Wolf

PeopleBelieveThinkNewsGoAccept

I think I don't have as much to prove now.

Miranda Lambert

ThinkNowProveI ThinkMuch

It is to such men as Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson and Jackson and Franklin, all most lowly born, that we owe most of our greatness as a nation.

Joseph Pulitzer

MenGreatnessBornNationMostOwe

I wrote a novel, Ghost Road Rules, and as soon as it was done and polished, I began reaching out to agents. I ignored the frequent advice to 'shoot low and try for a low-level agent because they're the only ones that will take a flyer on a new author.' That sounded like bad advice to me.

Jonathan Maberry

MeRoadAdviceBadRulesNew

I'm really interested in the new nonfiction. I think the hyper-digital culture has changed our brains in ways we cannot begin to fathom.

David Shields

CultureThinkNewBeginBrains

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