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 Read Quote
Our literary culture is marinated in deep traditions of the fantastic and the supernatural, and we export those rich qualities in films and books on a spectacular industrial scale. Graham Joyce Read Quote
I have to get out once a week and speak with people or I start thinking I’m the emperor of Abyssinia. Graham Joyce Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Rome is a place almost worn out by being looked at, a city collapsing under the weight of reference. Graham Joyce Read Quote
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. Graham Joyce Read Quote
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. Graham Joyce Read Quote
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. Graham Joyce Read Quote
It is, of course, the first recourse of every elitist to see social barbarism in others. Graham Joyce Read Quote
