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 Ifs 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… — Graham Swift Again 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… — Graham Swift Doe Copy Share Image
My upbringing was absolutely not the archetypal writer's upbringing. Even, arguably, the opposite. — Graham Swift Opposites 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… — Graham Swift I can 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.… — Graham Swift Building Copy Share Image
“And books, she knew by then, were one of the necessities, the rocks of her life.” — Graham Swift Books 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 Area 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… — Graham Swift Because 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… — Graham Swift God 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.… — Graham Swift Abrupt Copy Share Image
London is like no other city I know in its ability to become beautiful. You can suddenly turn a corner and there… — Graham Swift Ability Copy Share Image
When people aren't expecting to be seen, they look their truest. — Graham Swift Expecting Copy Share Image
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… — Graham Swift Illusion Copy Share Image
I respond to the sound of London being spoken - to the sound of London. — Graham Swift London Copy Share Image
If people read 'Tomorrow' and feel that it is offering them some view of my own household, they would be very, very… — Graham Swift Feels Copy Share Image
Part of the very impulse of writing for me is actually wanting to get away from myself. — Graham Swift Get away Copy Share Image
People die when curiosity goes.People have to find out, people have to know. How can there be any true revolution till we… — Graham Swift Curiosity Copy Share Image
I share my name with an aerobatic bird that can whiz across a whole summer sky in seconds. A swift is so… — Graham Swift Bird Copy Share Image
“Those TV pictures had looked like scenes from hell. Flames leaping up into the night. Even so, cattle aren’t people. Just a… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
“When it comes down to it, Matthew was just another disillusioned idealist, an over-reactive Hamlet type--couldn't take it that the world was… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
All novelists must form their personal pacts in some way with the slowness of their craft. There are some who demand of… — Graham Swift Book Copy Share Image
I am struck by the way people behave on the Tube. They look at each other beadily and inquisitively, and something goes… — Graham Swift Animal Copy Share Image
