Quote

I have never been clever enough - or egotistical enough to spend 300 pages dipping into the sludge of my own subconscious.

Winston Graham

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Winston Graham
Age: 93 †
Born: 1910
Born: June 30
Died: 2003
Died: July 10
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Manchester
England
Winston Mawdsley Graham
Spend
Enough
Sludge
Never
Dipping
Egotistical
Cleverness
Subconscious
Clever
Pages

More quotes by Winston Graham

Image
For life is a trumpery thing at best, isn't it? A few moments, a few words, between dark and dark. But in true love you keep company with the Gods.
Winston Graham
Image
He pronounced some of his words as if they were corks being drawn out of bottles.
Winston Graham
Image
I have been under considerable pressure to buy at least a laptop computer. I have always turned the suggestions down for the reason that I have never done creative work on a typewriter. There is to me a lack of empathy.
Winston Graham
Image
When you bring an idealised relationship down to the level of an ordinary one it isn't necessarily the ordinary one that suffers'.
Winston Graham
Image
All I knew was that I was writing something out of my very guts, and that I was content.
Winston Graham
Image
I was very happy, I think part of the point of this creativity is to do something that helps you in a cathartic sense.
Winston Graham
Image
Youth was so mercilessly hard in its decisions it had its own unyielding standards and had not yet learned enough to know that time would prove them arbitrary.
Winston Graham
Image
Give me the comma of imperfect striving, thus to find zest in the immediate living. Ever the reaching but never the gaining, ever the climbing but never the attaining of the mountain top.
Winston Graham