Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Winston Graham

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Last updated on September 29, 2024.

Winston Mawdsley Graham OBE, born Winston Grime, was an English novelist best known for the Poldark series of historical novels set in Cornwall, though he also wrote numerous other works, including contemporary thrillers, period novels, short stories, non-fiction and plays. Winston Graham was the author's pseudonym until he changed his name by deed poll from Grime to Graham on 7 May 1947.

English - Novelist | June 30, 1908 - July 10, 2003

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

Winston Graham

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

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

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

Winston Graham

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

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

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

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

Winston Graham

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

Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Winston Graham

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