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What we wish upon the future is very often the image of some lost, imagined past.
Graham Swift
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Graham Swift
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: May 4
Film Writer
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London
England
Graham Colin Swift
Graham Colin Swift FRSL
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If you can't stand your own company alone in a room for long hours, or, when it gets tough, the feeling of being in a locked cell, or, when it gets tougher still, the vague feeling of being buried alive-then don't be a writer.
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I am struck by the way people behave on the Tube. They look at each other beadily and inquisitively, and something goes on in their thoughts which must be equivalent to the way dogs and other animals, when they meet, sniff each other's arses and nuzzle each other's fur.
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Happiness quells thought. And work quells thought.
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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.
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Part of the very impulse of writing for me is actually wanting to get away from myself.
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All nature's creatures join to express nature's purpose. Somewhere in their mounting and mating, rutting and butting is the very secret of nature itself.
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Literature is the voice of the human heart.
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I like the world we've got. If there is anything special and magical, I have to find it in the ordinary stuff.
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I had a fear of becoming anything, a fear of becoming a specialist. I might have become a doctor, but if you become a doctor, that's your specialty in life and you are defined by it. One of the attractions of being a writer is that you're never a specialist. Your field is entirely open your field is the entire human condition.
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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.
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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.
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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.'
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Today's news, which may be yesterday's anyway, will be eclipsed tomorrow.
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Children, be curious. Nothing is worse (I know it) than when curiosity stops. Nothing is more repressive than the repression of curiosity. Curiosity begets love. It weds us to the world. It's part of our perverse, madcap love for this impossible planet we inhabit. People die when curiosity goes. People have to find out, people have to know.
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All novelists must form their personal pacts in some way with the slowness of their craft. There are some who demand of themselves a 'rate of production,' for whom it's a matter of pride to complete, say, a book every year.
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My upbringing was absolutely not the archetypal writer's upbringing. Even, arguably, the opposite.
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If people read 'Tomorrow' and feel that it is offering them some view of my own household, they would be very, very wrong.
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London is like no other city I know in its ability to become beautiful. You can suddenly turn a corner and there are odd moments - of light, of weather.
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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.
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