Quotes by Graham Swift

Graham Swift

People die when curiosity goes.People have to find out, people have to know. How can there be any true revolution till we know what we’re made of? 830

Curiosity

People

Revolution

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?

Memories

Night

Years

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.’

Littles

Mad

Men

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 reality. Melancholia and self-murder are not unknown in the Fens. Heavy drinking, madness and sudden acts of violence are not uncommon. How do you surmount reality, children? How do you acquire, in a flat country, the tonic of elevated feelings?

Children

Country

Strong

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. In my work you often get an abrupt shift in time, a jolt. But the emotional logic will take the reader on. I hope. I trust. After all, our memories do not work with any sequential logic.

Emotional

Memories

Writing

That’s the way it is: life inculdes a lot of empty space. We are one-tenth living tissue, nine-tenths water; life is one-tenth Here and Now, nine-tenths a history lesson. For most of the time the Here and Now is neither now nor here.

Space

Tissues

Water

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 all use and to make amazing things occur.

Art

Clever

Real

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.

Doe

Fall

Other Worlds

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.

Humble

Land

Progress

Today’s news, which may be yesterday’s anyway, will be eclipsed tomorrow.

May

News

Yesterday

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Air

Animal

Art

Austerity

Beautiful

Becoming

Believe

Book

Cells

Character

Children

Cities

Class

Clever

Country

Curiosity

Doctors

Doe

Dog

Doubt

Emotional

Expecting

Extraordinary

Faces

Fall

Flow

Get Away

Hate

Heart

Humble

Illusion

Impulse

Intellectual Curiosity

Knows

Land

Levels

Light

Littles

London

Long

Looks

Lost

Mad

May

Mean

Memories

Men

Mentor

Might

Mind

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Quotes by Graham Swift

Graham Swift

People die when curiosity goes.People have to find out, people have to know. How can there be any true revolution till we know what we’re made of? 830

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.’

That’s the way it is: life inculdes a lot of empty space. We are one-tenth living tissue, nine-tenths water; life is one-tenth Here and Now, nine-tenths a history lesson. For most of the time the Here and Now is neither now nor here.

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 all use and to make amazing things occur.

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.

Today’s news, which may be yesterday’s anyway, will be eclipsed tomorrow.

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