The Paris Review Interviews Joy Williams on the Art of Fiction
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Interviewed by Paul Winner
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A profile/interview with acclaimed American writer Joy Williams, part of The Paris Review's "Art of Fiction" series. The piece explores Williams's distinctive literary voice, her unconventional approach to craft and writing, her resistance to formulaic storytelling, and her philosophical views on the writer's responsibility to signs, dreams, and the mysterious. It includes anecdotes about her career, her relationships with other writers like Robert Stone, and her unique perspective on the writing life.
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· 3 pulledI think the writer has to be responsible to signs and dreams. If you don't do anything with it, you lose it.
She discussed Kraft cheese and the 'twiddling' nature of art pursued 'within a parameter of hours in prisons, nursing homes, and kindergartens'
The writer has to be responsible to signs and dreams.
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