Graham Joyce Quotes
The trouble with forgiveness is that some people don't want to be forgiven.
The overintellectualization of surrealism can be a bromide. A dream interpreted is a deflated dream.
It is, of course, the first recourse of every elitist to see social barbarism in others.
Rome is a place almost worn out by being looked at, a city collapsing under the weight of reference.
I've been a professional writer for 20 years, and there are contours in that time, crescents and troughs.
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.
That's emails for ya: sometimes they're like an arrow that hits so deep in the target, you can't pull it out.
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.
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.
He said he preferred to feel the earth sing through his feet, and that shoes stopped you from hearing the song of the earth.
There are certain songs, and books, and films that are like points of high ground in the memory. Like they are even larger than your own experiences. They never go away.
