Winston Graham Professions : Novelist Born : June 30, 1908 Died : July 10, 2003 Browse All Authors Top 9 quotes by Winston Graham All I knew was that I was writing something out of my very guts, and that I was content. Winston Graham guts writing I have never been clever enough - or egotistical enough to spend 300 pages dipping into the sludge of my own subconscious. Winston Graham pages enough clever 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 unyielding arbitrary decision He pronounced some of his words as if they were corks being drawn out of bottles. Winston Graham cork bottles ifs 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 helping thinking 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 few-words dark love-you 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 levels suffering ordinary 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 zest climbing 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 empathy typewriters creative Similar Authors Adam Johnson novelist Ivan Goncharov novelist Binnie Kirshenbaum novelist Bruce Jay Friedman novelist Buchi Emecheta novelist Bryce Courtenay novelist All Authors
