My upbringing was absolutely not the archetypal writer's upbringing. Even, arguably, the opposite. — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
When I am writing, I'm very much on the ground, on the same ground my characters are treading. — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
Part of the very impulse of writing for me is actually wanting to get away from myself. — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I came from a lower-middle-class postwar family in a time of austerity and retrenchment, with no one in the family who was… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It can be dismaying, all the same, for a novelist to compare the slowness of the writing with the speed of the… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
One of the things that probably drew me to writing was that it was something you could get on with by yourself.… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I had a fear of becoming anything, a fear of becoming a specialist. I might have become a doctor, but if you… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I like the world we've got. If there is anything special and magical, I have to find it in the ordinary stuff. — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
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… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
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… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
My upbringing was absolutely not the archetypal writer's upbringing. Even, arguably, the opposite. — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
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… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
“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… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
“And books, she knew by then, were one of the necessities, the rocks of her life.” — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
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… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
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,… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
“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… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
In my work you often get an abrupt shift in time, a jolt. But the emotional logic will take the reader on. I hope.… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
