Quotes by : Graham Swift

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

So what was it then exactly, this truth-telling? ... It was about being true to the very stuff of 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,....

The real art is not to come up with extraordinary clever words but to make ordinary simple words do extraordinary....

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....

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