Graham Joyce Quotes

Antiques exist as evidence of the cultural tracks we made in the past.

Books that are books are all that you want, and there are but a half dozen in any thousand.

There's only one spot in history for the first ever of anything.

Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of the dress, the pleasure, the laughter, the ridicules of society. The old times live again. Can the heaviest historian do more for me?

Everything written is as good as it is dramatic. It need not declare itself in form, but it is drama or nothing.

I was really gifted at being able to construct a joke, but it's like they weren't even memorable, my first jokes, because they were so about nothing.

Acknowledgemen t of what you feel, what you know, what you need is the first step toward healing.

In the construction of Immortal Fame you need first of all a cosmic shamelessness.

The great artist takes what he needs.

Out in the sun, some painters are lined up. The first is copying nature, the second is copying the first, the third is copying the second... You see the sequence.

The artists must see all things as if he were seeing them for the first time. All his life he must see as he did when he was a child.

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with; as if, observes our author himself, any originality but our own could be expected to content us! In fact all strange thing are apt, without fault of theirs, to estrange us at first view, and unhappily scarcely anything is perfectly plain, but what is also perfectly common.

Nobody needs a movie to give them an idea.

A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity

None of my other investments give me the joy that autographs do because they make me feel that I am holding a piece of history in my hands.

We have a First Amendment for good reasons. We need a free press because without an educated electorate we cannot have a functioning democracy.

Feeling of an emotion is a process that is distinct from having the emotion in the first place. So it helps to understand what is an emotion, what is a feeling, we need to understand what is an emotion.

I believe that only poetry counts ... A great novelist is first of all a great poet.

I'll tell you the first thing we need to do is take Harry Reid out.

I think that the Bible as a system of moral guidance in the 21st century is insufficient, to put it mildly. I feel quite strongly that we need a new moral lodestone if we can't rely on what is inside our own selves. Which I think, actually, is pretty reliable.

The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

I know the power of the Israeli lobby and the other lobbies, but we need a foreign policy that puts our own country first.

I'll develop my own image. I'm an original man. A one and only. I just need some help.

A censure would put an indelible scar on the president's place in history, .. Monica Lewinsky is not Watergate. Let he who has no sin in this chamber cast the first stone.