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 Areas Copy Share Image
“How we forgive narrowness of mind, when it accompanies largeness of heart. Yet no breadth of intellect exonerates want of feeling.” — Graham Swift Forgiveness Copy Share Image
“The oak was, of course, a great stealer of the surrounding pasture—its only value to provide shade for the livestock—but it was… — Graham Swift First time Copy Share Image
Today's news, which may be yesterday's anyway, will be eclipsed tomorrow. — Graham Swift May Copy Share Image
I do my thinking while I walk. It just loosens up the mind in the way that you don't get when you… — Graham Swift Desks Copy Share Image
When I am writing, I'm very much on the ground, on the same ground my characters are treading. — Graham Swift Character Copy Share Image
“And as for the Ellison Fellow's feelings towards Katherine Potter--to be honest, they involve a good deal of confusion. He reacts before… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
I tend to begin with what you might call the very small world of personal life. But I am certainly interested in… — Graham Swift Am Copy Share Image
“Not all of it was done by soldiers, or by men. She’d shut her eyes and run her fingers over Jack’s shoulders,… — Graham Swift Blind person Copy Share Image
Ah, children, pity level-crossing keepers, pity lock-keepers - pity lighthouse-keepers - pity all the keepers of this world (pity even school teachers),… — Graham Swift Bleak Copy Share Image
“A friend of his entered the restaurant, looking too, for whatever reason, a little frail. The was an exchange of token 'how… — Graham Swift Friendship Copy Share Image
When anything goes digital, let alone something as immaterial as a book, there is a tendency to see it as just in… — Graham Swift Air Copy Share Image
“Life goes on. It doesn't go on. Yes, yes, I know, all we want in the end, we living, breathing creatures (am… — Graham Swift Faith 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 Attraction Copy Share Image
“Why is it that every so often history demands a bloodbath, a holocaust, an Armageddon? And why is it that every time… — Graham Swift History Copy Share Image
“His mother is dead, yet she has never not been, in theory, at his shoulder. He wants her not to have known… — Graham Swift Death 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 Artistic 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 Barely Copy Share Image
What we wish upon the future is very often the image of some lost, imagined past. — Graham Swift Lost Copy Share Image
Children, be curious. Nothing is worse (I know it) than when curiosity stops. Nothing is more repressive than the repression of curiosity.… — Graham Swift Children Copy Share Image
All nature's creatures join to express nature's purpose. Somewhere in their mounting and mating, rutting and butting is the very secret of… — Graham Swift Animals Copy Share Image
“It makes you feel sort of cheap and titchy. Like it's looking down at you, saying, I'm Canterbury Cathedral, who the hell… — Graham Swift Cathedral Copy Share Image
My mother was a great bringer-up of children. My memories are of a sense of security and comfort. — Graham Swift Children Copy Share Image
