Joy Williams quote

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
Joy Williams
Born: Feb 11, 1944

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Think, Starts, Other, Enough, Out, Writer, Contact, Making, Up, Human, Just, Ends, Human Beings, Wanting, Agent, Beings

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