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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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How quick and rushing life can sometimes seem, when at the same time it's so slow and sweet and everlasting.

~ Graham Swift

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.

~ Graham Swift

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

~ Graham Swift

And though, indeed, it only happened once, it’s gone on happening, the way unique and momentous things do, for ever and ever, as long as there’s a memory for them to happen in …

~ Graham Swift