Graham Swift Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• 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.

  Graham Swift

  Writing, Cells, Long

  Graham Swift (2012). “Making an Elephant: Writing from Within”, p.56, Pan Macmillan

• Part of the very impulse of writing for me is actually wanting to get away from myself.

  Graham Swift

  Writing, Impulse, Get Away

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

  Graham Swift

  Writing, Character, Treading

  "Voice from the street" by Sophie Harrison, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2007.

• 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. 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

  Memories, Writing, Emotional

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