How quick and rushing life can sometimes seem, when at the same time it's so slow and sweet and everlasting. Graham Swift More Quotes by Graham Swift More Quotes From Graham Swift Of course there are times when I hate London, but equally there are times when I can walk 'round a corner and I really feel that this is my place. Graham Swift london hate walks People die when curiosity goes. Graham Swift intellectual-curiosity curiosity people Today's news, which may be yesterday's anyway, will be eclipsed tomorrow. Graham Swift news yesterday may When I am writing, I'm very much on the ground, on the same ground my characters are treading. Graham Swift treading writing character All novelists must form their personal pacts in some way with the slowness of their craft. There are some who demand of themselves a 'rate of production,' for whom it's a matter of pride to complete, say, a book every year. Graham Swift pride book years Children, be curious. Nothing is worse (I know it) than when curiosity stops. Nothing is more repressive than the repression of curiosity. Curiosity begets love. It weds us to the world. It's part of our perverse, madcap love for this impossible planet we inhabit. People die when curiosity goes. People have to find out, people have to know. Graham Swift curiosity children people I came from a lower-middle-class postwar family in a time of austerity and retrenchment, with no one in the family who was in any way artistic or a potential mentor to a budding writer, and yet this is what I became. Graham Swift mentor austerity class And I didn't know I loved her till I'd dreamt of her. I didn't know it was the real thing until an illusion had signalled it. Graham Swift illusion real knows I think the purveyors of e-books are only too happy for this atmosphere of 'everything belongs to everybody' to increase because it means they don't have to think so much about the original maker of the thing, or they can get away with paying them less. Graham Swift mean book thinking 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 does not hide that its premise is illusion. Graham Swift other-worlds doe fall London is like no other city I know in its ability to become beautiful. You can suddenly turn a corner and there are odd moments - of light, of weather. Graham Swift light cities beautiful Pillow talk. It's how you know, it's how you tell, that something different, something special is happening: that this might even be the most important night of your life. Some day -some night- I hope you both may know it, with whoever it may be: the wish, stealing up on you, not to just merge bodies, but all you have, all your years, all your memories up to that point. And why should you wish to do that, if you haven't already guessed that your future too, will be shared? Graham Swift night memories years My upbringing was absolutely not the archetypal writer's upbringing. Even, arguably, the opposite. Graham Swift upbringing opposites 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 if you can stop the world slipping away. My humble model for progress I the reclamation of land. Which is repeatedly, never-ending retrieving what it lost. A dogged and vigilant business. A dull yet valuable business. A hard, inglorious business. But you shouldn’t go mistaking the reclamation of land for the building of empires. Graham Swift progress land humble I don't reread my books. Graham Swift book I respond to the sound of London being spoken - to the sound of London. Graham Swift london sound When people aren't expecting to be seen, they look their truest. Graham Swift expecting people looks If people read 'Tomorrow' and feel that it is offering them some view of my own household, they would be very, very wrong. Graham Swift offering views people My mother was a great bringer-up of children. My memories are of a sense of security and comfort. Graham Swift mother memories children Part of the very impulse of writing for me is actually wanting to get away from myself. Graham Swift get-away impulse writing
