William Goyen Quotes

• Maybe solitude is best had in the midst of multitudes.

  William Goyen

  Solitude, Midst, Multitudes

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• There’s nothing better than an elegant cry of despair.

  William Goyen

  Despair, Cry, Elegant

  William Goyen, Reginald Gibbons (2007). “Goyen: Autobiographical Essays, Notebooks, Evocations, Interviews”, p.85, University of Texas Press

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• For me, environment is all. Place — as I was saying about my students — is absolutely essential.

  William Goyen

  Essentials, Environment

  "Goyen: Autobiographical Essays, Notebooks, Evocations, Interviews".

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• It’s amazing how quickly something gets written. Now, when it comes, it can be on a bus, or in a store. I’ve stopped in Macy’s and written on a dry-goods counter and then suddenly had a whole piece of writing for myself that was accomplished, where earlier in my life I felt I had to spend a week in a house somewhere in the country in order to get that. Conditions change.

  William Goyen

  Country, Writing, Order

  William Goyen, Reginald Gibbons (2007). “Goyen: Autobiographical Essays, Notebooks, Evocations, Interviews”, p.76, University of Texas Press

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