Rome is a place almost worn out by being looked at, a city collapsing under the weight of reference. Graham Joyce citycollapselook Change image and share on social
I have to get out once a week and speak with people or I start thinking I'm the emperor of Abyssinia. Graham Joyce abyssiniaemperorpeople Change image and share on social
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 backboxbundle Change image and share on social
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 defendexperimentform Change image and share on social
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 awardcontraryedge share on social
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 allowcomputercontext share on social
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 experiencefeltlife share on social
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 abandondelicateentropy share on social
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 balancecontributedesk share on social
I've been a professional writer for 20 years, and there are contours in that time, crescents and troughs. Graham Joyce contourcrescenthave Change image and share on social