Quotes by Graham Joyce

Graham Joyce

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.

People

Thinking

Two

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.

Doors

Light

Thinking

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

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.

Awards

Swimming

Winning

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.

Book

Dirty

Political

I am less interested in ghosts than in people who see ghosts.

Ghost

People

I have to get out once a week and speak with people or I start thinking I’m the emperor of Abyssinia.

People

Speak

Thinking

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.

Language

Novelists

People

I’ve been a professional writer for 20 years, and there are contours in that time, crescents and troughs.

Crescent

Trough

Years

I’ve been playing ‘Doom’ for some years.

Doom

Years

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Alcohol

Arrows

Awards

Barbarism

Believe

Blood

Book

Boxes

Christian

Cities

Crescent

Difficult

Dirty

Distance

Doom

Doors

Dream

Drug

Earth

Eels

Emotion

Example

Eye

Fairytale

Fall

Fashion

Feelings

Firsts

Frozen

Games

Ghost

Greater

Icy

Imagination

Inspire

Interesting

Jobs

Language

Light

Long

Looks

Mean

Mist

Modern

Moses

Mountain

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Quotes by Graham Joyce

Graham Joyce

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.

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.

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.

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.

I am less interested in ghosts than in people who see ghosts.

I have to get out once a week and speak with people or I start thinking I’m the emperor of Abyssinia.

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.

I’ve been a professional writer for 20 years, and there are contours in that time, crescents and troughs.

I’ve been playing ‘Doom’ for some years.

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