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Writing Quotes by Graham Swift
- If you can't stand your own company alone in a room for long hours, or, when it gets tough, the feeling of being in a…
- 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 area…
- Part of the very impulse of writing for me is actually wanting to get away from myself.
- When I am writing, I'm very much on the ground, on the same ground my characters are treading.
- 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…
- 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…
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