Top 25 Quotes by Graham Joyce of 36 - Page 2

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

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

Interesting, Fairytale, Spices

George Orwells 1984 frequently tops surveys of our greatest books: its not a celebration of poetic language. Its decidedly anti-literary, a masterpiece of personal and political narrative sequence. And its subject matter is crucial, because what 1984 shows is that language can be a dirty trick.

Graham Joyce

Dirty, Book, Political

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

Dream, People, Mountain

"Don't confuse 'readability' with dumbing down" by Graham Joyce, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2011.

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

Swimming, Winning, Awards

"Graham Joyce wins fantasy award and makes sports book award longlist" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2009.

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

Graham Joyce

Blood, Veins, Frozen

Graham Joyce (2011). “The Silent Land: A novel”, p.278, Anchor

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

Order, Example, Looks

"Prize-winning author Graham Joyce to write script for Doom 4" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2009.

Perhaps living souls had greater phantom powers than the dead.

Graham Joyce

Soul, Phantoms, Greater

Graham Joyce (2012). “Some Kind of Fairy Tale: A Novel”, p.46, Anchor

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

Christian, Eels, Wings

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

People, Novelists, Language

"Don't confuse 'readability' with dumbing down" by Graham Joyce, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2011.

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

Fashion, Mtv, Games