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> [“Hamlet's mother says to Hamlet, "Why seems it so particular with thee?" What is the difference between belief and make-belief? What makes us give to any one belief (since it is only a matter of shifting, tuning the mind) the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-swift/hamlet-s-mother-says-to-hamlet-why-seems-it-so-particular-with-thee/)

[Graham Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-swift/)

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## More by Graham Swift

> [I like the world we've got. If there is anything special and magical, I have to find it in the ordinary stuff.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-swift/i-like-the-world-we-ve-got-if-there-is-anything-special-and-magical-i/)

[Graham Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-swift/)

> [The idea of stopping is not unmeaningful to me. I think there might be a time when, in theory at least, you'd say, 'Well…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-swift/the-idea-of-stopping-is-not-unmeaningful-to-me-i-think-there-might-be/)

[Graham Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-swift/)

> [There has always been, for me, this other world, this second world to fall back on--a more reliable world in so far as it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-swift/there-has-always-been-for-me-this-other-world-this-second-world-to/)

[Graham Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-swift/)

> [My upbringing was absolutely not the archetypal writer's upbringing. Even, arguably, the opposite.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-swift/my-upbringing-was-absolutely-not-the-archetypal-writer-s-upbringing/)

[Graham Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-swift/)

> [As a novelist, I suppose I can say that I'm highly articulate. But I know, as a person, in other ways, I'm not always…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-swift/as-a-novelist-i-suppose-i-can-say-that-i-m-highly-articulate-but-i/)

[Graham Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-swift/)

> [“There’s this thing called progress. But it doesn’t progress, it doesn’t go anywhere. Because as progress progresses the world can slip away. It’s progress…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-swift/there-s-this-thing-called-progress-but-it-doesn-t-progress-it-doesn-t/)

[Graham Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-swift/)

> [“And books, she knew by then, were one of the necessities, the rocks of her life.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-swift/and-books-she-knew-by-then-were-one-of-the-necessities-the-rocks-of/)

[Graham Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-swift/)

> [Structure that really pays off is all based on emotion. I don't write down an elaborate plan. It's really done by feel. It's one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-swift/structure-that-really-pays-off-is-all-based-on-emotion-i-don-t-write/)

[Graham Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-swift/)

> [The novel that's contemporary in the sense of being wholly 'of now' is an impossibility, if only because novels may take years to write,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-swift/the-novel-that-s-contemporary-in-the-sense-of-being-wholly-of-now-is/)

[Graham Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-swift/)

> [“But this would have been to ignore the young man of only twenty-five, who, for all his, by now, increasing and debilitating proneness to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-swift/but-this-would-have-been-to-ignore-the-young-man-of-only-twenty-five/)

[Graham Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-swift/)

> [Literature is the voice of the human heart.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-swift/literature-is-the-voice-of-the-human-heart/)

[Graham Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-swift/)

> [In my work you often get an abrupt shift in time, a jolt. But the emotional logic will take the reader on. I hope.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-swift/in-my-work-you-often-get-an-abrupt-shift-in-time-a-jolt-but-the/)

[Graham Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-swift/)

> [London is like no other city I know in its ability to become beautiful. You can suddenly turn a corner and there are odd…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-swift/london-is-like-no-other-city-i-know-in-its-ability-to-become/)

[Graham Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-swift/)

> [When people aren't expecting to be seen, they look their truest.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-swift/when-people-aren-t-expecting-to-be-seen-they-look-their-truest/)

[Graham Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-swift/)

> [And I didn't know I loved her till I'd dreamt of her. I didn't know it was the real thing until an illusion had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-swift/and-i-didn-t-know-i-loved-her-till-i-d-dreamt-of-her-i-didn-t-know-it/)

[Graham Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-swift/)

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