Graham Swift Quotes

When I love a novel I've read, I want to reread it - in part, to see how it was constructed.

I love to reread, even more than I like to read, so keeping a hold of books that I adore is very important, although they flee from me - they are always fleeing.

I doubt if I shall ever have time to read the book again -- there are too many new ones coming out all the time which I want to read. Yet an old book has something for me which no new book can ever have -- for at every reading the memories and atmosphere of other readings come back and I am reading old years as well as an old book.

Reading should be a repeat performance.

I read everything. I've always got a book on the go and I'm really nerdy about it, I get through books and don't remember anything about them afterwards. But I read all sorts, from classic to contemporary.

I love to read, and I love to write. I love to read. You have no idea how many books I have.

Also, if nothing else, writing this book has really changed the way I experience bookstores. I have a whole different appreciation for the amount of work packed into even the slimmest volume on the shelves.

I love books. I read voraciously, and I happened to have been fortunate to have been in the right place at the right time.

I'm ashamed to admit this, but I didn't read a novel all the way through until after high school. Blasphemy, I know. I'm an author now. Books and words are my world.

I read a lot of the books that I love again and again and again and try to understand how the writer did it.

My criteria for what makes a book an official 'favorite,' is based almost entirely on how desperately I don't want the story to end.

Becoming an author changes your attitude too. Once you see where books come from, and how they're made, they never seem quite as sacred again.

I'm happy to see book clubs on TV. Talking about books has always been an important and invigorating part of reading them, and it's nice that that is getting attention from the media.

I didn't really like reading much before I did 'The Golden Compass'. But then my teacher told me to read it. And I thought, 'Oh God, I'm going to have to read a whole book by myself!' It's not that I couldn't read, it's just that I didn't really like books very much. But the book that she lent me I really enjoyed.

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see why people have to write them.

The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.

Any writer who gives a reader a pleasurable experience is doing every other writer a favor because it will make the reader want to read other books. I am all for it.

When I think of the books I love, there's always a little laughter in the dark.

I love the fact that 'Flowers for Algernon' is doing its part to get people reading.

Real men read my books.

Our house was awash in books, and my mother doled out her favorites like they were special treats - which they were.

So, whenever I'm writing, I'm writing in the presence of all the other books I've read and I think we all are.

I think I learned about the relationship between books and life from Margaret Mitchell.

Most scholarly books we read for the information or insight they contain. But some we return to simply for the pleasure of the author's company.