Graham Joyce

“I have to get out once a week and speak with people or I start thinking I'm the emperor of Abyssinia.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“He said he preferred to feel the earth sing through his feet, and that shoes stopped you from hearing the song of the earth.”

“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.”

“There are certain songs, and books, and films that are like points of high ground in the memory. Like they are even larger than your own experiences. They never go away.”

“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.”

“Some people feed you with love.”