“But there are times in life when a door opens and you are offered a glimpse of the light on the water, and you know that if you don't take it, that door slams shut, and maybe forever. Maybe you fool yourself into thinking that you had a choice at all; maybe you were always going to say yes. Maybe refusing was no more a choice than is holding your breath. You were always going to breathe. You were always going to say yes.” IfsThinkingKnowsLightChoicesWaterForeverDoorsFoolBreathsBreatheGlimpseSlam Author:Graham Joyce
“The bluebells made such a pool that the earth had become like water, and all the trees and bushes seemed to have grown out of the water. And the sky above seemed to have fallen down on to the earth floor; and I didn’t know if the sky was the earth or the earth was water. I had been turned upside down. I had to hold the rock with my fingernails to stop me falling into the sky of the earth or the water of the sky. But I couldn’t hold on.” IfsKnowsMadeEarthFallWaterTreeSkyRocksFallenPoolUpside DownFingernailsBluebells Book:Some Kind of Fairy Tale Source: Some Kind of Fairy Tale
“No one needs a first edition. Whoever wrote it; even if it was Moses.” IfsNeedsFirstsMoses Author:Graham Joyce
“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.” IfsWayWritingStillsFeelingsTomorrowOverwhelmedManageable Author:Graham Joyce
“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.” PeopleIfsWayWantNeedsFirstsDreamLiteratureSpeakFictionMountainCritics Author:Graham Joyce
“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.” PeopleIfsFormLanguageExperimentsNovelistsThick Author:Graham Joyce
