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Graham Swift

The pen is very quick for getting stuff from your brain to the page. I can do hieroglyphics in the margin. There are days when I really enjoy the flow of ink. I mean, nice pen, ink straight on to the page.

– Graham Swift

Graham Swift

I’m not a writer who looks for the fantastic and the sensational. I like the world we’ve got. If there is anything special and magical, I have to find it in the ordinary stuff.

– Graham Swift

Graham Swift

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.

– Graham Swift

Graham Swift

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.

– Graham Swift

Graham Swift

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

Graham Swift

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

– Graham Swift

Graham Swift

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

– Graham Swift

Graham Swift

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 are all, from time to time, inarticulate, at some level, about some things.

– Graham Swift

Graham Swift

I tend to begin with what you might call the very small world of personal life. But I am certainly interested in how that small, intimate world connects or doesn’t connect with a larger world.

– Graham Swift

Graham Swift

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, so the ‘now’ with which they begin will be defunct by the time they’re finished.

– Graham Swift

Graham Swift

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

– Graham Swift

Graham Swift

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

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