Graham Joyce Quotes

• Why can’t our job here on earth be simply to inspire each other?

  Graham Joyce

  Jobs, Inspire, Earth

  "Graham Joyce, much-loved fantasy author, dies aged 59" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2014.

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• The overintellectualization of surrealism can be a bromide. A dream interpreted is a deflated dream.

  Graham Joyce

  Dream, Surrealism, Surreal

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• 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.

  Graham Joyce

  Fall, Rocks, Sky

  Graham Joyce (2012). “Some Kind of Fairy Tale”, p.37, Hachette UK

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

  Graham Joyce

  Thinking, People, Speak

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

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• 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.

  Graham Joyce

  Eye, Mean, Thinking

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• 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.

  Graham Joyce

  Writing, Feelings, Way

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

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• 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.

  Graham Joyce

  Eye, Imagination, Tiny

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• 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.

  Graham Joyce

  Boxes, Difficult, Sprung

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• 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.

  Graham Joyce

  Thinking, Light, Doors

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• 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.

  Graham Joyce

  Thinking, Two, People

  Graham Joyce (2011). “The Silent Land: A novel”, p.169, Anchor

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• Rationally speaking, blaming one's behavior on alcohol or drugs is like blaming the ladder by which you descended into a pit, or the staircase that took you down to a cellar, for what you found there.

  Graham Joyce

  Alcohol, Drug, Pits

  "Sometimes a Great Notion". Book by Graham Joyce, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 27, 1964.

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

  Graham Joyce

  People, Want, Trouble

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• Rome is a place almost worn out by being looked at, a city collapsing under the weight of reference.

  Graham Joyce

  Rome, Cities, Weight

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

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• The modern superstition is that we're free of superstition.

  Graham Joyce

  Superstitions, Modern

  Graham Joyce (2012). “Some Kind of Fairy Tale: A Novel”, p.164, Anchor

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• 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.

  Graham Joyce

  Believe, Trying, Way

  Graham Joyce (2012). “Some Kind of Fairy Tale”, p.174, Hachette UK

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

  Graham Joyce

  Years, Crescent, Trough

  "Graham Joyce wins fantasy award and makes sports book award longlist" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2009.

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

  Graham Joyce

  Needs, Firsts, Moses

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• Twenty years is, after all, a long time. We are not the same people we were. Old friends, lovers, even family members: they are strangers who happen to wear a familiar face. We have no right to claim to know anyone after such a distance.

  Graham Joyce

  Distance, Years, Long

  Graham Joyce (2012). “Some Kind of Fairy Tale”, p.248, Hachette UK

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• It is, of course, the first recourse of every elitist to see social barbarism in others.

  Graham Joyce

  Firsts, Social, Barbarism

  "Don't confuse 'readability' with dumbing down" by Graham Joyce, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2011.

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

  Graham Joyce

  People, Ghost

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

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

  Graham Joyce

  Air, Unicorn, Mist

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

  Graham Joyce

  Perfect, Icy, Nuance

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• That's emails for ya: sometimes they're like an arrow that hits so deep in the target, you can't pull it out.

  Graham Joyce

  Arrows, Email, Target

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• Some people feed you with love.

  Graham Joyce

  People

  Graham Joyce (2012). “Some Kind of Fairy Tale”, p.90, Hachette UK

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• 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.

  Graham Joyce

  Together, Emotion, Study

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