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'Plutocracy.' It has a perfect nuance: chilly, inaccessible, icy-rich.
~ Graham Joyce
Chilly
Inaccessible
Nuance
Perfect
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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 tiny - or not so tiny - leap of the imagination is made.
~ Graham Joyce
Compete
Consumer
Crucial
Day
Every
Every Day
Eye
Hook
Imagination
Industries
Leap
Lock
Made
Product
Second
Shocks
Subject
Thousand
Tiny
Visual
Where
Will
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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
Contrary
Edges
Fantasy
Genre
Gets
Lot
Middle
Mixed
Most
On The Contrary
Rather
Reception
Stuff
Swimming
Tends
Than
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George Orwell's '1984' frequently tops surveys of our greatest books: it's not a celebration of poetic language. It's 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
Because
Books
Celebration
Crucial
Dirty
Frequently
George
Greatest
Language
Masterpiece
Matter
Narrative
Our
Personal
Poetic
Political
Sequence
Shows
Subject
Subject Matter
Surveys
Tops
Trick
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I have to get out once a week and speak with people or I start thinking I'm the emperor of Abyssinia.
~ Graham Joyce
Emperor
Get
Once
Once A Week
Out
People
Speak
Start
Thinking
Week
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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
Any
Defend
Experiment
Form
Language
Making
Novelist
Out
People
React
Right
Take
Thick
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I've been a professional writer for 20 years, and there are contours in that time, crescents and troughs.
~ Graham Joyce
Been
Professional
Professional Writer
Time
Writer
Years
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I've been playing 'Doom' for some years.
~ Graham Joyce
Been
Doom
Playing
Some
Years
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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
Change
Come
Critics
Down
Dream
Fiction
First
Literature
Mountain
Need
People
Speak
Want
Ways
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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
About
Experience
Feeling
Get
Life
Make
Manageable
Overwhelmed
Published
Someone
Something
Still
Tell
Tomorrow
Way
Writing
You
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It is, of course, the first recourse of every elitist to see social barbarism in others.
~ Graham Joyce
Barbarism
Course
Elitist
Every
First
Others
See
Social
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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
All Things
American
Back
British
British People
Bush
Christian
Democracy
Entirely
George
George Bush
Grasped
He
Just
Kyoto
Lot
Never
Notion
People
Refused
Represents
Right-Wing
Something
Things
Toxic
Undermined
Who
Worst
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My story reflexes come less from fantasy or horror than from the darker sort of psychological thriller - not as plot-driven as most, rather more mood-driven. My interest in the supernatural is a complication - though I am less interested in ghosts than in people who see ghosts.
~ Graham Joyce
Am
Come
Darker
Fantasy
Ghosts
Horror
I Am
Interest
Interested
Less
More
Most
People
Psychological
Rather
See
Sort
Story
Supernatural
Than
Though
Thriller
Who
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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.
~ Graham Joyce
Books
Culture
Deep
Export
Fantastic
Films
Industrial
Literary
Our
Qualities
Rich
Scale
Spectacular
Supernatural
Those
Traditions
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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
After
Allowed
Computer
Computer Science
Context
Emotions
Get
Get Together
Large
Like
Never
Perhaps
Questioned
Science
Shared
Should
Studying
Together
Vulnerability
Workplace
Writers
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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
Abandoned
Become
Been
Both
Delicate
Done
Entropy
Fairy
Fairy Tales
Has-Been
Imported
Interesting
Itself
More
Point
Publishing
Spice
Structures
Tales
Those
Well
Where
Works
World
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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
Back
Been
Box
Difficult
Has-Been
Human
Human Psyche
Often
Out
Package
Perhaps
Psyche
Pulled
Push
Repression
Tightly
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Rome is a place almost worn out by being looked at, a city collapsing under the weight of reference.
~ Graham Joyce
Almost
Being
City
Collapsing
Looked
Out
Place
Reference
Rome
Weight
Worn
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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
Actually
Always
Anyway
Balancing
Been
Contribute
Desk
Doom
Edge
Exact
Example
Find
For Example
Fulcrum
Hired
I Can
Like
Look
Looking
Lots
Order
Out
Pencil
Playing
Say
See
Since
Storyline
Stuff
True
Window
Working
Writer
You
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The overintellectualization of surrealism can be a bromide. A dream interpreted is a deflated dream.
~ Graham Joyce
Dream
Interpreted
Surrealism
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