Get away Quote by Graham Swift Download Open image “Part of the very impulse of writing for me is actually wanting to get away from myself.” — Graham Swift ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Get away Impulse Writing
I'm not that interested in writing for myself. That's not where my impetus as a writer comes from. — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
The two years I spent solely writing for other people kind of took me away from myself. — LP Copy Share Image
In modern novels I try to not let myself get away and to be here, and that's why I write about my life and… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
The process of writing has always started for me when I put myself in a place where no one distracts me. — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
Writing is a way of drifting within my own mind: almost a solitary process, so to speak. — Twinkle Khanna Copy Share Image
If you don't have a burning passion for writing, how can you expect anyone else to be moved by what you write? — JoAnn Ross Copy Share Image
You write for other people and it feels you're giving a little bit of yourself away. — Dean Lewis Copy Share Image
I like the world we've got. If there is anything special and magical, I have to find it in the ordinary stuff. — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
My upbringing was absolutely not the archetypal writer's upbringing. Even, arguably, the opposite. — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“And books, she knew by then, were one of the necessities, the rocks of her life.” — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When history looks back, I want people to know the Nazis weren't able to kill millions of people and get away with it. — Simon Wiesenthal Copy Share Image
Most magicians consider the palm an easy move to make. They are inclined to believe that they are 'getting away with it,' when they… — Dai Vernon Copy Share Image
My mother loved my father. From my view, she let him get away with too much. It broke my heart to see him in… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
Any artist can't get away from the way the world works, which is that it wants to know what you did, and you're only… — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
It takes a little more time to get into the role, but not very much more. In making a record you don't have the… — Maria Callas Copy Share Image
We all have prejudices to dispel: the need to get away from thinking that 'I' am important and special and 'you' are not, and… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
At some point, you have to disconnect, if the obsession with playing a real person gets in the way of the movie at large.… — Joel Edgerton Copy Share Image
Once the war began, the government could do anything 'necessary' to win it; so it was with the 'final solution of the Jewish problem,'… — Milton Mayer Copy Share Image
It's the tradition of American writers getting away in order to see the country - to get a better view. — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
The minute you get away from fundamentals – whether its proper technique, work ethic or mental preparation – the bottom can fall out of… — Michael Jordan Copy Share Image
I would wear a full-length cape if I could get away with it - I do love a good swirl in a fog. — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image