Best Graham Swift Quotes
- My upbringing was absolutely not the archetypal writer's upbringing. Even, arguably, the opposite. Absolutely
- Novels, in my experience, are slow in coming, and once I've begun them I know I have years rather than months of work ahead of… Ahead
- Of course there are times when I hate London, but equally there are times when I can walk 'round a corner and I really feel… Corner
- Part of the very impulse of writing for me is actually wanting to get away from myself. Actually Wanting
- Today's news, which may be yesterday's anyway, will be eclipsed tomorrow. Eclipsed
- When I am writing, I'm very much on the ground, on the same ground my characters are treading. Character
- All novelists must form their personal pacts in some way with the slowness of their craft. There are some who demand of themselves a 'rate… All
- 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 articulate.… All
- I had a fear of becoming anything, a fear of becoming a specialist. I might have become a doctor, but if you become a doctor,… Attraction
- I share my name with an aerobatic bird that can whiz across a whole summer sky in seconds. A swift is so equipped for speed… Across
- I think the purveyors of e-books are only too happy for this atmosphere of 'everything belongs to everybody' to increase because it means they don't… Atmosphere
- Pillow talk. It's how you know, it's how you tell, that something different, something special is happening: that this might even be the most important… All
- How quick and rushing life can sometimes seem, when at the same time it's so slow and sweet and everlasting. Everlasting
- 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 does… Been
- 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 signalled… Dreamt
- Children, be curious. Nothing is worse (I know it) than when curiosity stops. Nothing is more repressive than the repression of curiosity. Curiosity begets love.… Begets
- Children, only animals live entirely in the Here and Now. Only nature knows neither memory nor history. But man - let me offer you a… All
- That's the way it is: life inculdes a lot of empty space. We are one-tenth living tissue, nine-tenths water; life is one-tenth Here and Now,… Empty
- One of the things that probably drew me to writing was that it was something you could get on with by yourself. Publishing means going… Activity
- The e-book does seem at the moment to threaten the livelihood of writers, because the way in which writers are paid for their work in… Air
- Unfortunately writers take a very small part of the profit on their books, and I think in the e-book world there is a real danger… Book
- It can be dismaying, all the same, for a novelist to compare the slowness of the writing with the speed of the reading. Novels are… All
- London is like no other city I know in its ability to become beautiful. You can suddenly turn a corner and there are odd moments… Ability
- In my work you often get an abrupt shift in time, a jolt. But the emotional logic will take the reader on. I hope. I… Abrupt
- The pen is very quick for getting stuff from your brain to the page. I can do hieroglyphics in the margin. There are days when… Brain