“I have to get out once a week and speak with people or I start thinkin...” — Graham Joyce Quote

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

“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.”

“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.”

“An artist, in my understanding of the word, should side with the people against the Emperor that oppresses his or her people.”

“Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.”

“I feel like an emperor only when I'm writing.”