Top 4 Quotes by William Goyen

Maybe solitude is best had in the midst of multitudes.

Maybe solitude is best had in the midst of multitudes.

Solitude, Midst, Multitudes

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

Despair, Cry, Elegant

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

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".

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