Winston Graham
Winston Graham
Winston Mawdsley Graham OBEwas an English novelist best known for the Poldark series of historical novels set in Cornwall. He also wrote many other novels, including thrillers and historical novels...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth30 June 1908
advantages apart assumes extra nature page second third
I have been told of the many extra advantages of word-processing, and I acknowledge them. But, apart from other reasons, I find that a sentence, a page, a book, assumes a different nature when it is first in manuscript, second in typescript, and third in page proofs.
bottles ifs cork
He pronounced some of his words as if they were corks being drawn out of bottles.
suffering ordinary levels
When you bring an idealised relationship down to the level of an ordinary one it isn't necessarily the ordinary one that suffers'.
typewriters empathy creative
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.
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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.