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Graham Swift quotes: When people aren't expecting to be seen, they look their truest.

When people aren't expecting to be seen, they look their truest.

Graham Swift quotes: People die when curiosity goes.

People die when curiosity goes.

Graham Swift quotes: When something's one thing, it's not another.

When something's one thing, it's not another.

Graham Swift quotes: Today's news, which may be yesterday's anyway, will be eclipsed tomorrow.

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

Graham Swift quotes: I do my thinking while I walk. It just loosens up the mind in the way that you don't get when you are sitting at a desk.

I do my thinking while I walk. It just loosens up the mind in the way that you don't get when you are sitting at a desk.

Graham Swift quotes: I respond to the sound of London being spoken - to the sound of London.

I respond to the sound of London being spoken - to the sound of London.

Graham Swift quotes: How we forgive narrowness of mind, when it accompanies largeness of heart. Yet no breadth of intellect exonerates want of feeling.

How we forgive narrowness of mind, when it accompanies largeness of heart. Yet no breadth of intellect exonerates want of feeling.

Graham Swift quotes: When I am writing, I'm very much on the ground, on the same ground my characters are treading.

When I am writing, I'm very much on the ground, on the same ground my characters are treading.

Graham Swift quotes: 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.

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 quotes: How quick and rushing life can sometimes seem, when at the same time it's so slow and sweet and everlasting.

How quick and rushing life can sometimes seem, when at the same time it's so slow and sweet and everlasting.

Graham Swift quotes: Novels, in my experience, are slow in coming, and once I've begun them I know I have years rather than months of work ahead of me.

Novels, in my experience, are slow in coming, and once I've begun them I know I have years rather than months of work ahead of me.

Graham Swift quotes: My mother was a great bringer-up of children. My memories are of a sense of security and comfort.

My mother was a great bringer-up of children. My memories are of a sense of security and comfort.

Graham Swift quotes: Part of the very impulse of writing for me is actually wanting to get away from myself.

Part of the very impulse of writing for me is actually wanting to get away from myself.

Graham Swift quotes: My upbringing was absolutely not the archetypal writer's upbringing. Even, arguably, the opposite.

My upbringing was absolutely not the archetypal writer's upbringing. Even, arguably, the opposite.

Graham Swift quotes: 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.'

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 quotes: What is a history teacher? He's someone who teaches mistakes.

What is a history teacher? He's someone who teaches mistakes.

Graham Swift quotes: A feeble fire is worse than an empty grate.

A feeble fire is worse than an empty grate.

Graham Swift quotes: Literature is the voice of the human heart.

Literature is the voice of the human heart.

Graham Swift quotes: 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

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

Graham Swift quotes: Happiness quells thought. And work quells thought.

Happiness quells thought. And work quells thought.

Graham Swift quotes: There are no compasses for journeying in time.

There are no compasses for journeying in time.

Graham Swift quotes: What we wish upon the future is very often the image of some lost, imagined past.

What we wish upon the future is very often the image of some lost, imagined past.

Graham Swift quotes: I don't reread my books.

I don't reread my books.

Graham Swift quotes: He demands an explanation.

He demands an explanation.

Graham Swift quotes: When it comes down to it, Matthew was just another disillusioned idealist, an over-reactive Hamlet type--couldn't take it that the world was real.

When it comes down to it, Matthew was just another disillusioned idealist, an over-reactive Hamlet type--couldn't take it that the world was real.

Graham Swift quotes: It makes you feel sort of cheap and titchy. Like it's looking down at you, saying, I'm Canterbury Cathedral, who the hell are you?

It makes you feel sort of cheap and titchy. Like it's looking down at you, saying, I'm Canterbury Cathedral, who the hell are you?

Graham Swift quotes: 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.

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 quotes: If people read 'Tomorrow' and feel that it is offering them some view of my own household, they would be very, very wrong.

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 quotes: I think what I like to do is to begin with the ordinary and find the extraordinary in it.

I think what I like to do is to begin with the ordinary and find the extraordinary in it.

Graham Swift quotes: What does education do, what does it have to offer, when deprived of its necessary partner, the future, and face instead with - no future at all?

What does education do, what does it have to offer, when deprived of its necessary partner, the future, and face instead with - no future at all?