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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 38 quotes by Graham Swift Graham Colin Swift FRSL (born 4 May 1949) is an English writer. Born in London, England, he was educated at Dulwich College, London, Queens' College, Cambridge, and later the University of York. Some of Swift's books have been filmed, including Last Orders, starring Michael Caine and Bob Hoskins and Waterland, starring Jeremy Irons. Last Orders was joint-winner of the 1996 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction and a mildly controversial... Read full biography of Graham Swift → 1 2 3 Ctrl → 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... → 0 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... → 0 It can be dismaying, all the same, for a novelist to compare the slowness of the writing with the speed of the reading. Novels are read in a matter... → 0 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... → 0 My mother was a great bringer-up of children. My memories are of a sense of security and comfort. 0 I think what I like to do is to begin with the ordinary and find the extraordinary in it. 0 People die when curiosity goes. 0 Today's news, which may be yesterday's anyway, will be eclipsed tomorrow. 0 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... → 0 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... → 0 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... → 0 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... → 0 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 I've mostly done... → 0 1 2 3 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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