Pillow talk. It's how you know, it's how you tell, that something different, something special is happening: that this might even be… — Graham Swift Body Copy Share Image
“Hamlet's mother says to Hamlet, "Why seems it so particular with thee?" What is the difference between belief and make-belief? What makes… — Graham Swift Faith Copy Share Image
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… — Graham Swift Empty Copy Share Image
How quick and rushing life can sometimes seem, when at the same time it's so slow and sweet and everlasting. — Graham Swift Everlasting Copy Share Image
The pen is very quick for getting stuff from your brain to the page. I can do hieroglyphics in the margin. There… — Graham Swift Brain 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 Air Copy Share Image
Possibly he knew, as he wrote this, that he was mad - because inside every madman sits a little sane man saying… — Graham Swift Mad Copy Share Image
Realism; fatalism; phlegm. To live in the Fens is to receive strong doses of reality. The great flat monotony of reality; the… — Graham Swift Acts of violence Copy Share Image
The real art is not to come up with extraordinary clever words but to make ordinary simple words do extraordinary things. To… — Graham Swift Amazing things 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 Anything Copy Share Image
“He was distrustful of happiness as some people fear heights or open spaces.” — Graham Swift Fear 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 Activity 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 About Copy Share Image
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 About Copy Share Image
You may have your suspicions, your fears, you may even believe there is something, somewhere, terribly, drastically wrong, but because someone else… — Graham Swift Believe Copy Share Image
There's an undeniable thrill in seeing what's most current in our lives offered back to us in fictional guise, but it soon… — Graham Swift Adventure Copy Share Image
What does education do, what does it have to offer, when deprived of its necessary partner, the future, and face instead with… — Graham Swift Doe Copy Share Image
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 Books Copy Share Image
Of course there are times when I hate London, but equally there are times when I can walk 'round a corner and… — Graham Swift Feels Copy Share Image
I think what I like to do is to begin with the ordinary and find the extraordinary in it. — Graham Swift Extraordinary Copy Share Image
I can do hieroglyphics in the margin. There are days when I really enjoy the flow of ink. I mean, nice pen,… — Graham Swift Can do Copy Share Image
There is a certain inescapable attachment. If you are born somewhere and circumstances don't take you away from it, then you grow… — Graham Swift Attachment Copy Share Image
Children, only animals live entirely in the Here and Now. Only nature knows neither memory nor history. But man - let me… — Graham Swift Animal Copy Share Image
