Niall Williams Quotes

A Central Principle Underlying Mrs Quinty's Rules For Writing Is That You Have To Have A Beginning Middle And End. If You Don't Have These Your Reader Is Lost. But What If Lost Is Exactly Where The Writer Is? I Asked Her. Ruth, The Writer Can't Be Lost, She Said, And Then Knew She'd Said It Too Quickly And Bit Her Lip Knowing I Was Going To Say Something About Dad. She Pressed Her Knees Together And Diverted Into A Fit Of Dry Coughing. This, Dear Reader, Is A River Narrative. My Chosen Style Is The Meander. I Know That In The Brothers Karamazov (Book 1,777, Penguin Classics, London) Ippolit Kirillovich Chose The Historical Form Of Narration Because Dostoevsky Says It Checked His Own Exuberant Rhetoric. Beginnings Middles And Ends Force You Into That Place Where You Have To Stick To The Story As Maeve Mulvey Said The Night The Junior Certs Were Supposed To Be Going To The Cinema In Ennis But Were Buying Cans In Dunnes And Drinking

Niall Williams Quotes: A Central Principle Underlying Mrs Quinty's Rules For Writing Is That You Have To Have A Beginning Middle And End.

Niall Williams Quotes: A Central Principle Underlying Mrs Quinty's Rules For Writing Is That You Have To Have A Beginning Middle And End.

Niall Williams Quotes: A Central Principle Underlying Mrs Quinty's Rules For Writing Is That You Have To Have A Beginning Middle And End.

Niall Williams Quotes: A Central Principle Underlying Mrs Quinty's Rules For Writing Is That You Have To Have A Beginning Middle And End.

Niall Williams Quotes: A Central Principle Underlying Mrs Quinty's Rules For Writing Is That You Have To Have A Beginning Middle And End.

Niall Williams Quotes: A Central Principle Underlying Mrs Quinty's Rules For Writing Is That You Have To Have A Beginning Middle And End.

Niall Williams Quotes: A Central Principle Underlying Mrs Quinty's Rules For Writing Is That You Have To Have A Beginning Middle And End.

Niall Williams Quotes: A Central Principle Underlying Mrs Quinty's Rules For Writing Is That You Have To Have A Beginning Middle And End.

Niall Williams Quotes: A Central Principle Underlying Mrs Quinty's Rules For Writing Is That You Have To Have A Beginning Middle And End.

Niall Williams Quotes: A Central Principle Underlying Mrs Quinty's Rules For Writing Is That You Have To Have A Beginning Middle And End.

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