Graham Joyce

“He looked like a once-green leaf that had begun to dry and to reveal the structure of its veins.”

— Graham Joyce

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

— Graham Joyce

Perhaps living souls had greater phantom powers than the dead.

— Graham Joyce

“The most extraordinary thing about it all was how simple it was just to carry on. There were meals to be prepared…

— Graham Joyce

“Someone said that thirty was a significant birthday, and everyone around the table agreed. Someone else said it was the first time…

— Graham Joyce

The blood in my veins is frozen but it sings of love.

— Graham Joyce

If critics of 'readable fiction' want literature to change the ways people dream, they need first to come down from the mountain…

— Graham Joyce

“And there was Tara, again with that shy half-smile and her burgundy lips slightly puckered, that shy kink, an incomplete curlicue at…

— Graham Joyce

“The sun was up and I want to say that it was golden, but it wasn't golden, it was the color of…

— Graham Joyce

The mist hung in the air like a prancing unicorn.

— Graham Joyce

“There is no "mid" about it. Life is a crisis from the cradle to the grave.”

— Graham Joyce

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

— Graham Joyce

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

— 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…

— Graham Joyce

What I mean is this: you meet someone, you think about them. You're already changing because of the way you think about…

— Graham Joyce

But there are times in life when a door opens and you are offered a glimpse of the light on the water,…

— Graham Joyce

“You don't understand. Speaking, talking--language, that is--represents the most orderly, civilized, and rational expression of human nature. All this foul-mouthed cussing is…

— Graham Joyce

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…

— Graham Joyce

I've been playing 'Doom' for some years.

— Graham Joyce

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

Recasting fairy tales has become a publishing sub-genre in itself, and has been done both well and to the point of entropy.…

— Graham Joyce

“I can tell you a dozen different stories. This is what we are: a collection of stories that we share, in common.…

— Graham Joyce

“...demons do tend to cluster around the yellowing pages and cracked spines of second hand books.”

— Graham Joyce

“The music--the making of music and the performing of music--produced memories, many good, some bad, some difficult. But he knew for sure…

— Graham Joyce

George Orwell's '1984' frequently tops surveys of our greatest books: it's not a celebration of poetic language. It's decidedly anti-literary, a masterpiece…

— Graham Joyce