Quotes by : Graham Swift

And though, indeed, it only happened once, it’s gone on happening, the way unique and momentous things....

And books, she knew by then, were one of the necessities, the rocks of her life.

If you can't stand your own company alone in a room for long hours, or, when it gets tough, the feeling....

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

Once upon a time, before the boys were killed and when there were more horses than cars, before the male....

What job do you want to do?And I see them all hanging up before me, like clothes on a rack, all the jobs,....

Children, be curious. Nothing is worse (I know it) than when curiosity stops. Nothing is more repressive....

There has always been, for me, this other world, this second world to fall back on--a more reliable world....

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

Children, only animals live entirely in the Here and Now. Only nature knows neither memory nor history.....