Writer Quotes by Graham Swift

I don't reread my books.

— Graham Swift

Literature is the voice of the human heart.

— Graham Swift

“And books, she knew by then, were one of the necessities, the rocks of her life.”

— Graham Swift

The e-book does seem at the moment to threaten the livelihood of writers, because the way in which writers are paid for…

— Graham Swift

My upbringing was absolutely not the archetypal writer's upbringing. Even, arguably, the opposite.

— Graham Swift

Novels, in my experience, are slow in coming, and once I've begun them I know I have years rather than months of…

— Graham Swift

I'm not a writer who looks for the fantastic and the sensational. I like the world we've got. If there is anything…

— Graham Swift

There's no such thing as the contemporary novel. Before I seem the complete reactionary, let me add that I've happily joined in…

— Graham Swift

One of the things that probably drew me to writing was that it was something you could get on with by yourself.…

— Graham Swift

It can be dismaying, all the same, for a novelist to compare the slowness of the writing with the speed of the…

— 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.…

— 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.…

— Graham Swift

Unfortunately writers take a very small part of the profit on their books, and I think in the e-book world there is…

— Graham Swift

I think the purveyors of e-books are only too happy for this atmosphere of 'everything belongs to everybody' to increase because it…

— Graham Swift

I had a fear of becoming anything, a fear of becoming a specialist. I might have become a doctor, but if you…

— 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…

— Graham Swift

If you can't stand your own company alone in a room for long hours, or, when it gets tough, the feeling of…

— Graham Swift

All novelists must form their personal pacts in some way with the slowness of their craft. There are some who demand of…

— 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…

— Graham Swift