“ 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… Graham Joyce
“ 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 compu… Graham Joyce
“ 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 distinc… Graham Joyce
“ Every day the eye is subject to a thousand tiny shocks as a thousand industries compete for the eye-kick, the visual hook that will lock the consumer into product for that crucial second where the tin… Graham Joyce
“ The fey wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them. CHARLES DE LINT Graham Joyce
“ He looked like a once-green leaf that had begun to dry and to reveal the structure of its veins. Graham Joyce
“ Rationally speaking, blaming one's behavior on alcohol or drugs is like blaming the ladder by which you descended into a pit, or the staircase that took you down to a cellar, for what you found there. Graham Joyce
“ And there was Tara, again with that shy half-smile and her burgundy lips slightly puckered, that shy kink, an incomplete curlicue at the corner of her mouth; he'd seen it before many times but never n… Graham Joyce
“ He said he preferred to feel the earth sing through his feet, and that shoes stopped you from hearing the song of the earth. Graham Joyce
“ 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. Graham Joyce
“ Twenty years is, after all, a long time. We are not the same people we were. Old friends, lovers, even family members: they are strangers who happen to wear a familiar face. We have no right to claim… Graham Joyce
“ You let go. It's as simple and as complicated as Antonia had told me. You cry. You come. You sing. You laugh. You scream. You let go. No one needs to hang on to a first edition. Whoever wrote it; even… Graham Joyce