Rachel Joyce
Rachel Joyce
heads people
Actors go inside the heads of other people and are not afraid of the complicated places you can find yourself.
characters lives loud noticed people quite relief stories
The characters in my stories all have quite loud lives in my head. It's a relief to get them on the page. Often they come from people I've noticed or overheard - but that is only a part of them. It's only by writing that I discover who these people really are.
drawn life moved people
I'm drawn to people who find themselves on the outside of things. I'm moved by that in real life.
harold life maureen meets ordinary people save terrible trying unspoken walks
In writing about Harold and Maureen with their terrible unspoken secret, and all those people that Harold meets as he walks to save a friend's life, I was trying to celebrate the ordinary people.
angle appear boring judgments life people quickly slightly somebody throwing
I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.
ordinary people quite somebody sure wave
On television, it's all just shiny, successful people, and so I feel somebody has to wave a flag for the ordinary people who are not quite sure that they are getting it right.
hurt people decision
...People would make the decisions they wished to make and some of them would hurt both themselves and those who loved them, and some would pass unnoticed, while others would bring joy.
loneliness car people
People were buying milk, or filling their cars with petrol, or even posting letters. And what no one else knew was the appalling weight of the thing they were carrying inside. The superhuman effort it took sometimes to be normal, and a part of things that appeared both easy and everyday. The loneliness of that.
feet long people
The world was made up of people putting one foot in front of the other; and a life might appear ordinary simply because the person living it had been doing so for a long time.
again books connecting discovered itself might somewhere
This is what I have discovered - and it has been a gift in itself - that books live over and over again in different people's minds. That I might mean one thing as I write, but a reader's experiences will take it somewhere else. That is like a conversation, I think. It is a true connecting up.
heads
I think lots of ideas are sometimes in our heads without us quite, you know, knowing it.
pinch praise somebody takes
I think I'm somebody who takes praise with a very big - probably too big - pinch of salt.
felt
For me, writing is such an escape, and I felt very lucky to have this to run away to.
cancer eye fighting head numerous reduced spent
My father had spent years fighting cancer of the head and neck. He had numerous operations, and he was reduced and reduced and reduced. By the end, he had a growth so big under his eye that it hurt to look at him.