Winston Graham famous quotes

All I knew was that I was writing something out of my very guts, and that I was content.
-- Winston Graham

#Writing #Guts

He pronounced some of his words as if they were corks being drawn out of bottles.
-- Winston Graham

#Bottles

When you bring an idealised relationship down to the level of an ordinary one it isn't necessarily the ordinary one that suffers'.
-- Winston Graham

#Suffering #Ordinary #Levels

Give me the comma of imperfect striving, thus to find zest in the immediate living. Ever the reaching but never the gaining, ever the climbing but never the attaining of the mountain top.
-- Winston Graham

#Climbing #Zest #Hiking

I have been under considerable pressure to buy at least a laptop computer. I have always turned the suggestions down for the reason that I have never done creative work on a typewriter. There is to me a lack of empathy.
-- Winston Graham

#Typewriters #Empathy #Creative

I have never been clever enough - or egotistical enough to spend 300 pages dipping into the sludge of my own subconscious.
-- Winston Graham

#Clever #Pages #Enough

I was very happy, I think part of the point of this creativity is to do something that helps you in a cathartic sense.
-- Winston Graham

#Creativity #Thinking #Helping

For life is a trumpery thing at best, isn't it? A few moments, a few words, between dark and dark. But in true love you keep company with the Gods.
-- Winston Graham

#Love You #Dark #Few Words

Youth was so mercilessly hard in its decisions; it had its own unyielding standards and had not yet learned enough to know that time would prove them arbitrary.
-- Winston Graham

#Decision #Arbitrary #Unyielding

This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it.

Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he still is there to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.

I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.

Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.

I can write better than anyone who can write faster,

I had a great year and left my guts out on the field.

The corridor couldn't have smelled more strongly of fish guts if we had actually been inside a fish.

Can't we be friends?' I hate your guts, Frankovitch' Can't our guts be friends?

I've only ever trusted my gut on everything. I don't trust my head, I don't trust my heart, I trust my gut.