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Joy Williams Quotes

There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Writing Process Something Destructive

Thank you... preseason football, for having all the excitement, commercials, and time-outs of the regular season, but with none of the mattering. I appreciate it. Thank you.

Football Thank You Appreciate You

Excess exercise tends to be counterbalanced by excess hunger, exemplified by the phrase 'working up an appetite.' A few people with extraordinary willpower can resist such hunger day after day, but for the vast majority, weight loss through exercise is a flawed option.

Day People Loss Exercise Weight Loss

The election of the Jewish people is the result of God's falling in love with Abraham and founding a family with him.

Meir Soloveichik

Family Love God People Result Him

I was so inspired by Dr. King that in 1956, with some of my brothers and sisters and first cousins - I was only 16 years old - we went down to the public library trying to check out some books, and we were told by the librarian that the library was for whites only and not for colors. It was a public library.

King Colors Library Trying Down Out

But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches or repinings.

Strength Courage Time Man Will

Even my older brothers' early success 10 years ago didn't change me since there was such an age difference.

Change Success Age Me Early Years

When someone asks if you want to play Brittany Murphy, who you idolized as a child and grew up loving and who you wanted to be, you can't say no. Even if it's the most terrifying thing someone asks you to do.

Child Someone You Loving Play Want

Don't do anything to anyone, and people will not make trouble for you.

Stephen Lawrence

People You Trouble Will Anything

In anything, there has to be that moment of fasting, really, in order to enjoy the feast.

Moment Enjoy Fasting Anything Order

Most young comedians would be lying to say that they weren't huge Weird Al fans when they were kids. Weird Al is probably the first person I ever realized had a career that was just making jokes.

Weird Career Person Young Say Lying

I wanted to be a writer, and my mother was like, 'No, why don't you become a lawyer?' That sort of thing.

Mother Lawyer You Why Become Like

But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember - that I was a pioneer in my profession, just as my grandfathers were in theirs, in that I was the first man in this section to earn his living as a writer.

Robert E. Howard

Failure Man Remember Living First

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