86 Quotes by Graham Joyce

I've been playing 'Doom' for some years.

Why can’t our job here on earth be simply to inspire each other?

Because two people in love don’t make a hive mind. Neither should they want to be a hive mind, to think the same, to know the same. It’s about being separate and still loving each other, being distinct from each other. One is the violin string one is the bow.

The modern superstition is that we’re free of superstition.

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.

Of course, everything depends on who is telling the story. It always does.

The trouble with forgiveness is that some people don’t want to be forgiven.

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.

You can be an aging rock star, but you can’t be an aging wannabe rock star.