Graham Joyce Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“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.”

“My story reflexes come less from fantasy or horror than from the darker sort of psychological thriller - not as plot-driven as most, rather more mood-driven. My interest in the supernatural is a complication - though I am less interested in ghosts than in people who see ghosts.”

“Repression in the human psyche is tightly bundled. When it has been pulled out of the sprung package so often it is perhaps difficult to push it back in the box.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“It's just that to a lot of British people George Bush represents the worst of all things American. He's the right-wing Christian crusader, the toxic Texan who refused Kyoto, the poll-cheat eel who undermined democracy on the back of something called 'chads,' a notion we've never entirely grasped.”