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.
Graham SwiftThereโs this thing called progress. But it doesnโt progress. It doesnโt go anywhere. Because as progress progresses the world can slip away. Itโs progress if you can stop the world slipping away. My humble model for progress I the reclamation of land. Which is repeatedly, never-ending retrieving what it lost. A dogged and vigilant business. A dull yet valuable business. A hard, inglorious business. But you shouldnโt go mistaking the reclamation of land for the building of empires.
Graham SwiftWhat does education do, what does it have to offer, when deprived of its necessary partner, the future, and face instead with - no future at all?
Graham SwiftI 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 SwiftStructure 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