The water is this marvellous blue. It’s so blue that once you see it you realise you’ve never seen blue before. That other thing you were calling blue is some other colour, it’s not blue. This, this is blue. It’s a blue that comes down from the sky into the water so that when you look in the sea you think sky and when you look at the sky you think sea.
When my father first took me to Ennis Library I went down among the shelves and felt company, not only the company of writers, but the readers too, b… - Niall Williams
When my father first took me to Ennis Library I went down among the shelves and felt company, not only the company of writers, but the readers too, b…
- Niall Williams
It was as if we were at the heart of a maze. We were overwhelmed by the enormity of the tasks ahead. Mary had given us a bottle of milk and a spoonfu… - Niall Williams
It was as if we were at the heart of a maze. We were overwhelmed by the enormity of the tasks ahead. Mary had given us a bottle of milk and a spoonfu…
All writers are waiting for replies. That’s what I’ve learned. Maybe all human beings are - Niall Williams
All writers are waiting for replies. That’s what I’ve learned. Maybe all human beings are
Some people make you feel better about living. Some people you meet and you feel this little lift in your heart, this 'Ah', because there's something… - Niall Williams
Some people make you feel better about living. Some people you meet and you feel this little lift in your heart, this 'Ah', because there's something…
Somehow the river is louder when you cover your ears. - Niall Williams
Somehow the river is louder when you cover your ears.
A truly extraordinary work: vivid, passionate and utterly compelling. The Sound of One Hand Clapping is raw as a wound. It opens a world that is stra… - Niall Williams
A truly extraordinary work: vivid, passionate and utterly compelling. The Sound of One Hand Clapping is raw as a wound. It opens a world that is stra…
Hope may or may not be a Thing with Feathers. But it’s definitely a Thing with Claws. - Niall Williams
Hope may or may not be a Thing with Feathers. But it’s definitely a Thing with Claws.
The world is more outlandish than some people’s imaginations. - Niall Williams
The world is more outlandish than some people’s imaginations.
We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling. - Niall Williams
We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling.
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