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Graham Joyce was a British writer known for his supernatural and suspense novels. His works often blend reality with fantasy, winning him a dedicated readership.

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Famous Graham Joyce Quotes

“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 to know anyone after such a distance.”

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Book:Some Kind of Fairy Tale

Source: Some Kind of Fairy Tale

“The trouble with forgiveness is that some people don't want to be forgiven.”

People Want Trouble Forgiven

Author: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 distinct from each other. One is the violin string one is the bow.”

People Thinking Knows Want Should Mind Stills Two Strings Bows Violin Hives

Book:The Silent Land: A novel

Source: The Silent Land: A novel

“Some people feed you with love.”

People

Book:Some Kind of Fairy Tale

Source: Some Kind of Fairy Tale

“I am less interested in ghosts than in people who see ghosts.”

People Ghost

Author:Graham Joyce

“I have to get out once a week and speak with people or I start thinking I'm the emperor of Abyssinia.”

People Thinking Speak Week Emperor

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.”

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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.”

People Ifs Form Language Experiments Novelists Thick

Author:Graham Joyce

“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.”

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Author:Graham Joyce

About the Author

Born: October 22, 1954
Died: September 9, 2014
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 41

Books & Sources

Some Kind of Fairy TaleRelated source material

Some Kind of Fairy Tale: A NovelRelated source material

The Silent Land: A novelRelated source material

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