"Novels, in my experience, are slow in coming,……" — Graham Swift
"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 me."
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50 Quotes by Graham Swift
Graham Swift has 50 quotes on this site.
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People die when curiosity goes.
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If you can't stand your own company alone in a room for long hours, or, when it gets tough, the…
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When anything goes digital, let alone something as immaterial as a book, there is a tendency to see it as…
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What we wish upon the future is very often the image of some lost, imagined past.
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Realism; fatalism; phlegm. To live in the Fens is to receive strong doses of reality. The great flat monotony of…
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When people aren't expecting to be seen, they look their truest.
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There’s this thing called progress. But it doesn’t progress. It doesn’t go anywhere. Because as progress progresses the world can…
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What does education do, what does it have to offer, when deprived of its necessary partner, the future, and face…
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I am struck by the way people behave on the Tube. They look at each other beadily and inquisitively, and…
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Structure that really pays off is all based on emotion. I don't write down an elaborate plan. It's really done…
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I like the world we've got. If there is anything special and magical, I have to find it in the…
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I can do hieroglyphics in the margin. There are days when I really enjoy the flow of ink. I mean,…
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The life ahead can only be glorious if you learn to live in total harmony with the Lord.
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Put your trust in the Lord and go ahead. Worry gets you no place.
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Oh, I would love to be a motivational speaker. I have pulled myself out of a million potholes, and I…
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There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
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We can't cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead…
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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves…
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The worst is still ahead of us. But no one in Washington has the spine to tell you that.
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No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it…
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On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA,…
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In nonviolence you must go full steam ahead, if you want the good to come speedily you must go about…
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