If critics of 'readable fiction' want literature to change the ways people dream, they need first to come down from the mountain… — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
I have to get out once a week and speak with people or I start thinking I'm the emperor of Abyssinia. — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
Because two people in love don't make a hive mind. Neither should they want to be a hive mind, to think the… — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
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… — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
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… — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
My story reflexes come less from fantasy or horror than from the darker sort of psychological thriller - not as plot-driven as… — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
Twenty years is, after all, a long time. We are not the same people we were. Old friends, lovers, even family members:… — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
The trouble with forgiveness is that some people don't want to be forgiven. — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
“He looked like a once-green leaf that had begun to dry and to reveal the structure of its veins.” — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
“The most extraordinary thing about it all was how simple it was just to carry on. There were meals to be prepared and eaten;… — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
“Someone said that thirty was a significant birthday, and everyone around the table agreed. Someone else said it was the first time you heard… — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
If critics of 'readable fiction' want literature to change the ways people dream, they need first to come down from the mountain and speak… — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
“And there was Tara, again with that shy half-smile and her burgundy lips slightly puckered, that shy kink, an incomplete curlicue at the corner… — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
“The sun was up and I want to say that it was golden, but it wasn't golden, it was the color of treacle. I… — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
“There is no "mid" about it. Life is a crisis from the cradle to the grave.” — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
The overintellectualization of surrealism can be a bromide. A dream interpreted is a deflated dream. — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
