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Graham Joyce

English Writer

Born: Oct 22, 1954

Been Books Come Language Made People

Related authors: Arthur C. Clarke D. H. Lawrence Douglas Adams Gilbert K. Chesterton John Ruskin Ricky Gervais Rudyard Kipling Thomas Paine

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

Life You Experience Writing Tomorrow Feeling Way Tell About Someone Something Make Still Overwhelmed Get Manageable Published

It is, of course, the first recourse of every elitist to see social barbarism in others. Graham Joyce

First Every Others See Recourse Course Social Barbarism Elitist

I've been a professional writer for 20 years, and there are contours in that time, crescents and troughs. Graham Joyce

Time Writer Been Years Professional Professional Writer

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

Swimming On The Contrary Rather Tends Stuff Most Genre Edges Mixed Lot Contrary Than Gets Middle Fantasy Reception

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. Graham Joyce

Fashion Culture Internet Made Anarchic Television Has-Been Visuals Magazine Poetry Computer Merchandising Mainstream Force Been Surrealism Shoot Transgression Commonplace Much Games Film

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

The overintellectualization of surrealism can be a bromide. A dream interpreted is a deflated dream. Graham Joyce

Dream Surrealism Interpreted

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

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

Some Been Years Doom Playing

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

Culture Rich Films Our Books Those Scale Supernatural Industrial Qualities Traditions Literary Fantastic Export Deep Spectacular

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