Niall Williams Quotes

We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling.

All writers are waiting for replies. That’s what I’ve learned. Maybe all human beings are

There are only three great puzzles in the world, the puzzle of love, the puzzle of death, and, between each of these and part of both of them, the puzzle of God. God is the greatest puzzle of all.

When you’re different you’ve got two choices. You can stand out or you step back.

It's a blindness thing, faith.

Hope may or may not be a Thing with Feathers. But it’s definitely a Thing with Claws.

We tell stories. We tell stories to pass the time, to leave the world for a while, or go more deeply into it. We tell stories to heal the pain of living.

Somehow the river is louder when you cover your ears.

The world is more outlandish than some people’s imaginations.

Writing is a sickness only cured by writing.

Human beings are not seamless smooth creations, they have insoluble parts, and the closer you look the more mysterious they become.

Love ... was part imagination, its web spun as much in the dark lonely separated evenings of longing as in the shared times together.