English - Writer | October 22, 1954 -
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
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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.
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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.
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I've been playing 'Doom' for some years.
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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.'
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Rome is a place almost worn out by being looked at, a city collapsing under the weight of reference.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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