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 Read Quote
The poetry and transgression that was so much of surrealism’s anarchic force has been recruited into mainstream culture. It has been made commonplace by television and magazine merchandising, by computer games and Internet visuals, by film and MTV, by the fashion shoot. Graham Joyce Read Quote
Fantasy gets a mixed reception – a lot of fantasy is formulaic but most of the award-winning fantasy on the contrary tends to be the stuff at the edges of the genre, rather than swimming in the middle. Graham Joyce Read Quote
I’ve been a professional writer for 20 years, and there are contours in that time, crescents and troughs. Graham Joyce Read Quote
Recasting fairy tales has become a publishing sub-genre in itself, and has been done both well and to the point of entropy. More interesting are those works where the structures of fairytales are abandoned but the world of ‘fairy’ is imported as a delicate spice. Graham Joyce Read Quote
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 crusader, the toxic Texan who refused Kyoto, the poll-cheat eel who undermined democracy on the back of something called ‘chads,’ a notion we’ve never entirely grasped. Graham Joyce Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Since I’ve been hired to contribute to the storyline of ‘Doom 4’ I can say what was always true anyway. I’m working. You see, for a writer, lots of stuff that doesn’t look like working is actually working. Looking out of the window, for example. Balancing a pencil on the edge of the desk in order to find its exact fulcrum. Playing ‘Doom.’ Graham Joyce Read Quote
The overintellectualization of surrealism can be a bromide. A dream interpreted is a deflated dream. Graham Joyce Read Quote
