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.
Graham SwiftThat's the way it is: life inculdes a lot of empty space. We are one-tenth living tissue, nine-tenths water; life is one-tenth Here and Now, nine-tenths a history lesson. For most of the time the Here and Now is neither now nor here.
Graham SwiftI 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.
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 Swift