When anything goes digital, let alone something as immaterial as a book, there is a tendency to see it as just in the air to be taken, and to lose the sense that somebody once made it.
Happiness quells thought. And work quells thought. - Graham Swift
Happiness quells thought. And work quells thought.
- Graham Swift
The real art is not to come up with extraordinary clever words but to make ordinary simple words do extraordinary things. To use the language that we… - Graham Swift
The real art is not to come up with extraordinary clever words but to make ordinary simple words do extraordinary things. To use the language that we…
Realism; fatalism; phlegm. To live in the Fens is to receive strong doses of reality. The great flat monotony of reality; the wide empty space of rea… - Graham Swift
Realism; fatalism; phlegm. To live in the Fens is to receive strong doses of reality. The great flat monotony of reality; the wide empty space of rea…
I think what I like to do is to begin with the ordinary and find the extraordinary in it. - Graham Swift
I think what I like to do is to begin with the ordinary and find the extraordinary in it.
What we wish upon the future is very often the image of some lost, imagined past. - Graham Swift
What we wish upon the future is very often the image of some lost, imagined past.
Possibly he knew, as he wrote this, that he was mad - because inside every madman sits a little sane man saying 'You're mad, you're mad.' - Graham Swift
Possibly he knew, as he wrote this, that he was mad - because inside every madman sits a little sane man saying 'You're mad, you're mad.'
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
I like the world we've got. If there is anything special and magical, I have to find it in the ordinary stuff.
I share my name with an aerobatic bird that can whiz across a whole summer sky in seconds. A swift is so equipped for speed that it can scarcely cope… - Graham Swift
I share my name with an aerobatic bird that can whiz across a whole summer sky in seconds. A swift is so equipped for speed that it can scarcely cope…
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 articulate. I think we are all,… - 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 articulate. I think we are all,…
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