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.

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

Writing, Guts

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

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

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

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

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

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

Winston Graham (1961). “Jeremy Poldark: a novel of Cornwall, 1790-1791”, Vintage