Graham Swift Quotes

I think the purveyors of e-books are only too happy for this atmosphere of 'everything belongs to everybody' to increase because it means they don't have to think so much about the original maker of the thing, or they can get away with paying them less.

Graham Swift

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: May 4, 1949

Topics

HappyThinkEverythingOriginalGet

I will say overwhelmingly what means so much more to me than the opinion of one reviewer are the letters I get from fans who tell me how a particular book has changed their life.

Jodi Picoult

LifeMeOpinionBookSayLetters

You would not believe some of the scripts I have seen. I have read something like 160 that I've rejected, and I keep them all, for posterity.

Jerry Lewis

BelieveYouSeenSomethingPosterity

Everybody's a train wreck in their own very special way. But there's something wildly freeing about someone who's unapologetic, who knows they're a wreck and doesn't even try to hide it, just bulldozes through life.

Melissa McCarthy

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Bookstores are lonely forts, spilling light onto the sidewalk. They civilize their neighborhoods.

John Updike

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It was a lot of fun doing 'Felicity.' She had just won the Golden Globe, and she was huge at the time, but she was like the nicest girl ever. As a guest star on a show, you get on the set and you feel out of place, but she was so nice to me and really cool.

Simon Rex

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I like to play golf, but not at a country club.

Roger Wang

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The most appealing side-effect of Sri Lankan cricket from where I stand, shuffling words, has been linguistic.

Romesh Gunesekera

WordsCricketStandWhereBeenMost

I don't have a problem with fame. I got into this business intending to be very successful, but I wanted it to be at my price.

Jason Patric

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The thing I love about Vegas is that it's a melting pot. It's like working Ellis Island.

Don Rickles

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I refuse to bring my son up in a world corrupt as it is now.

Dick Dale

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The thing that surprised me the most is just how much money women that weren't rich were paying for their hair. When you're in a beauty parlor in Harlem next to abandoned buildings and somebody's paying five grand for a weave, that's a bit much.

Chris Rock

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I think, reading the Grimm's fairy tales, they all have some sort of moral component to them, teaching you a lesson.

Claire Coffee

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