Ifs Quote by Graham Swift

The idea of stopping is not unmeaningful to me. I think there might be a time when, in theory at least, you'd say, 'Well…

— Graham Swift

There has always been, for me, this other world, this second world to fall back on--a more reliable world in so far as it…

— Graham Swift

My upbringing was absolutely not the archetypal writer's upbringing. Even, arguably, the opposite.

— Graham Swift

As a novelist, I suppose I can say that I'm highly articulate. But I know, as a person, in other ways, I'm not always…

— Graham Swift

“There’s this thing called progress. But it doesn’t progress, it doesn’t go anywhere. Because as progress progresses the world can slip away. It’s progress…

— Graham Swift

“And books, she knew by then, were one of the necessities, the rocks of her life.”

— Graham Swift

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…

— Graham Swift

The novel that's contemporary in the sense of being wholly 'of now' is an impossibility, if only because novels may take years to write,…

— Graham Swift

“But this would have been to ignore the young man of only twenty-five, who, for all his, by now, increasing and debilitating proneness to…

— Graham Swift

Literature is the voice of the human heart.

— Graham Swift

In my work you often get an abrupt shift in time, a jolt. But the emotional logic will take the reader on. I hope.…

— Graham Swift

London is like no other city I know in its ability to become beautiful. You can suddenly turn a corner and there are odd…

— Graham Swift