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Graham Swift Quotes

If people read 'Tomorrow' and feel that it is offering them some view of my own household, they would be very, very wrong.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Tomorrow People Feel View Wrong Own

After 25 years sitting on my own in a room, I was looking for a more companionable job and wanted to work more collaboratively. I've also been very lucky in my career, with good advances and multibook deals. But there is some extent to which I worried that I was writing for the contract and not for the impulse of the thing itself.

Work Good Job Writing Looking Lucky

I'm still very much a West Virginia boy. I haven't forgotten my roots, because that's really who I am.

I Am Roots Boy Forgotten West Still

Black men of integrity cannot make a deal with a politician and leave out the poor of the nation, all God's children.

Integrity God Children Men Black

I want to have a bunch of kids so I can boss them around.

Boss I Can Want Kids Around Them

Kids are falling through the cracks and nobody notices it. That to me is what's wrong with the school system.

School Me Wrong Nobody Falling Kids

Because artists can be extremely eccentric and insane, and unfortunately, the people they hurt the most are the people that are closest to them.

Maynard James Keenan

People Hurt Because Artists Insane

I learned early on, having known the most handsome, successful, Gary Cooper, Clark Gable, Robert Taylor, don't ever spend too much time looking in the mirror.

Time Mirror Looking Handsome Early

To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so.

Blame Computers More Human Even Err

A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.

Path Great Belief Right Open Chosen

Personally, I'd never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some very literate and intelligent people really rate the graphic novel as a form.

People Friends Intelligent Never

Pretty much everything on the web uses those two things: C and UNIX. The browsers are written in C. The UNIX kernel - that pretty much the entire Internet runs on - is written in C.

Internet Two Everything Pretty Web

Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.

Robert Anton Wilson

Time Blame Ego Person Fiction Which

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