--- title: "1 Ellison Quotes By Graham Swift" description: "1 Ellison quotes by Graham Swift. Plus more from Graham Swift and more Ellison sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cd0/graham-swift-8547_quote_and-as-for-the-ellison-fellow-s-feelings_1284126.jpg" --- > [“And as for the Ellison Fellow's feelings towards Katherine Potter--to be honest, they involve a good deal of confusion. He reacts before Katherine Potter, in fact, as he has reacted before all new, strange (attractive) women who happen, since a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-swift/and-as-for-the-ellison-fellow-s-feelings-towards-katherine-potter-to/) [Graham Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-swift/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cd0/graham-swift-8547_quote_and-as-for-the-ellison-fellow-s-feelings_1284126.jpg) ## 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/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ellison/graham-swift/#itemlist", "name": "1 Ellison Quotes By Graham Swift", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“And as for the Ellison Fellow's feelings towards Katherine Potter--to be honest, they involve a good deal of confusion. He reacts before Katherine Potter, in fact, as he has reacted before all new, strange (attractive) women who happen, since a certain event, to have crossed his path. He does not know how to deal with them. He is filled with dismay, a giddy sense of arbitrariness, an apprehension that the universe holds nothing sacred; all of which is only to be stilled by the imperative of loyal resistance. He is not immune to the prickle of passing lust. But he deals defensively with it. He reacts either with disdainful dismissal (Not your type, definitely not your type) or with a rampant if covert seizure of lecherousness (Christ, what tits! What legs! 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