"One of the things that probably drew me……" — Graham Swift
"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 public. But the actual activity could scarcely be more invisible. And private."
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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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More Activity Quotes
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I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words…
— Margaret Atwood
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If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always…
— Roger Bannister
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Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.
— Dave Barry
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To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.
— Martha Beck
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
— Alan Bennett
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The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete.
— Andrea Bocelli
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The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
— William J. H. Boetcker
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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
— Edward de Bono
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Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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I'm just trying to spread the word and upturn the myth that actually you should be resting after cancer treatment.…
— Jo Brand
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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in…
— Jacob Bronowski
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Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls…
— Bill Bryson
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