Area Quote by 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 area of my writing that I think I've got surer at as I've evolved.”

Graham Swift

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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 ordinary stuff.

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

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Literature is the voice of the human heart.

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