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  • I'd defend the right for any novelist to experiment with form or language, but if people don't take to it, don't react by making out that they are thick.

    "Don't confuse 'readability' with dumbing down" by Graham Joyce, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2011.
  • George Orwells 1984 frequently tops surveys of our greatest books: its not a celebration of poetic language. Its decidedly anti-literary, a masterpiece of personal and political narrative sequence. And its subject matter is crucial, because what 1984 shows is that language can be a dirty trick.

    Dirty   Book   Political  
  • I've been a professional writer for 20 years, and there are contours in that time, crescents and troughs.

    Years   Crescent   Trough  
    "Graham Joyce wins fantasy award and makes sports book award longlist" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2009.
  • The overintellectualization of surrealism can be a bromide. A dream interpreted is a deflated dream.

  • The thing is, when everyone is trying to persuade you that a thing you know to be true isn't actually true, you start to believe them: not because it is true but because it's easier. It's just the easy way out.

    Believe   Trying   Way  
    Graham Joyce (2012). “Some Kind of Fairy Tale”, p.174, Hachette UK
  • The modern superstition is that we're free of superstition.

    Graham Joyce (2012). “Some Kind of Fairy Tale: A Novel”, p.164, Anchor
  • Some people feed you with love.

    People  
    Graham Joyce (2012). “Some Kind of Fairy Tale”, p.90, Hachette UK
  • Fantasy gets a mixed reception - a lot of fantasy is formulaic but most of the award-winning fantasy on the contrary tends to be the stuff at the edges of the genre, rather than swimming in the middle.

    "Graham Joyce wins fantasy award and makes sports book award longlist" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2009.
  • That's emails for ya: sometimes they're like an arrow that hits so deep in the target, you can't pull it out.

    Arrows   Email   Target  
  • If critics of 'readable fiction' want literature to change the ways people dream, they need first to come down from the mountain and speak to the people.

    Dream   People   Mountain  
    "Don't confuse 'readability' with dumbing down" by Graham Joyce, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2011.
  • Perhaps living souls had greater phantom powers than the dead.

    Soul   Phantoms   Greater  
    Graham Joyce (2012). “Some Kind of Fairy Tale: A Novel”, p.46, Anchor
  • Perhaps writers should never be allowed to get together in a workplace context. It's not like studying computer science, after all. The emotions are at large, and are shared and are questioned. There is a vulnerability.

  • No one needs a first edition. Whoever wrote it; even if it was Moses.

    Needs   Firsts   Moses  
  • Every day the eye is subject to a thousand tiny shocks as a thousand industries compete for the eye-kick, the visual hook that will lock the consumer into product for that crucial second where the tiny - or not so tiny - leap of the imagination is made.

    Eye   Imagination   Tiny  
  • The mist hung in the air like a prancing unicorn.

    Air   Unicorn   Mist  
  • But there are times in life when a door opens and you are offered a glimpse of the light on the water, and you know that if you don't take it, that door slams shut, and maybe forever. Maybe you fool yourself into thinking that you had a choice at all; maybe you were always going to say yes. Maybe refusing was no more a choice than is holding your breath. You were always going to breathe. You were always going to say yes.

    Thinking   Light   Doors  
  • If I couldn't get published tomorrow I'd still be writing. It's something to do with feeling so overwhelmed by this experience of life that you have to tell someone about it, and in a way that reorders the experience to make it manageable.

    Writing   Feelings   Way  
    "The magus of the Midlands", www.theguardian.com. October 20, 2000.
  • I've been playing 'Doom' for some years.

    Years   Doom  
    "Prize-winning author Graham Joyce to write script for Doom 4" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2009.
  • The poetry and transgression that was so much of surrealism's anarchic force has been recruited into mainstream culture. It has been made commonplace by television and magazine merchandising, by computer games and Internet visuals, by film and MTV, by the fashion shoot.

    Fashion   Mtv   Games  
  • The trouble with forgiveness is that some people don't want to be forgiven.

    People   Want   Trouble  
  • I have to get out once a week and speak with people or I start thinking I'm the emperor of Abyssinia.

    Thinking   People   Speak  
    "The magus of the Midlands", www.theguardian.com. October 20, 2000.
  • Recasting fairy tales has become a publishing sub-genre in itself, and has been done both well and to the point of entropy. More interesting are those works where the structures of fairytales are abandoned but the world of 'fairy' is imported as a delicate spice.

  • Plutocracy.' It has a perfect nuance: chilly, inaccessible, icy-rich.

    Perfect   Icy   Nuance  
  • Because two people in love don't make a hive mind. Neither should they want to be a hive mind, to think the same, to know the same. It's about being separate and still loving each other, being distinct from each other. One is the violin string one is the bow.

    Thinking   Two   People  
    Graham Joyce (2011). “The Silent Land: A novel”, p.169, Anchor
  • What I mean is this: you meet someone, you think about them. You're already changing because of the way you think about them. You meet them again, you think about them some more, you're changing again. And on it goes. You are changing right now. Before my eyes.

    Eye   Mean   Thinking  
  • The blood in my veins is frozen but it sings of love.

    Blood   Veins   Frozen  
    Graham Joyce (2011). “The Silent Land: A novel”, p.278, Anchor
  • The bluebells made such a pool that the earth had become like water, and all the trees and bushes seemed to have grown out of the water. And the sky above seemed to have fallen down on to the earth floor; and I didn’t know if the sky was the earth or the earth was water. I had been turned upside down. I had to hold the rock with my fingernails to stop me falling into the sky of the earth or the water of the sky. But I couldn’t hold on.

    Fall   Rocks   Sky  
    Graham Joyce (2012). “Some Kind of Fairy Tale”, p.37, Hachette UK
  • Why can’t our job here on earth be simply to inspire each other?

    Jobs   Inspire   Earth  
    "Graham Joyce, much-loved fantasy author, dies aged 59" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2014.
  • Rome is a place almost worn out by being looked at, a city collapsing under the weight of reference.

    Rome   Cities   Weight  
    "The magus of the Midlands", www.theguardian.com. October 20, 2000.
  • I am less interested in ghosts than in people who see ghosts.

    People   Ghost  
    "The magus of the Midlands", www.theguardian.com. October 20, 2000.
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