If you can't stand your own company alone in a room for long hours, or, when it gets tough, the feeling of being in a lo — Graham Swift
If you can't stand your own company alone in a room for long hours, or, when it gets tough, the feeling of being in a lo — Graham Swift
If you can't stand your own company alone in a room for long hours, or, when it gets tough, the feeling of being in a lo — Graham Swift
If you can't stand your own company alone in a room for long hours, or, when it gets tough, the feeling of being in a lo — Graham Swift
If you can't stand your own company alone in a room for long hours, or, when it gets tough, the feeling of being in a lo — Graham Swift
If you can't stand your own company alone in a room for long hours, or, when it gets tough, the feeling of being in a lo — Graham Swift
If you can't stand your own company alone in a room for long hours, or, when it gets tough, the feeling of being in a lo — Graham Swift
If you can't stand your own company alone in a room for long hours, or, when it gets tough, the feeling of being in a lo — Graham Swift
If you can't stand your own company alone in a room for long hours, or, when it gets tough, the feeling of being in a lo — Graham Swift
If you can't stand your own company alone in a room for long hours, or, when it gets tough, the feeling of being in a lo — Graham Swift
If you can't stand your own company alone in a room for long hours, or, when it gets tough, the feeling of being in a lo — Graham Swift
If you can't stand your own company alone in a room for long hours, or, when it gets tough, the feeling of being in a lo — Graham Swift
If you can't stand your own company alone in a room for long hours, or, when it gets tough, the feeling of being in a lo — Graham Swift
If you can't stand your own company alone in a room for long hours, or, when it gets tough, the feeling of being in a lo — Graham Swift
If you can't stand your own company alone in a room for long hours, or, when it gets tough, the feeling of being in a lo — Graham Swift
If you can't stand your own company alone in a room for long hours, or, when it gets tough, the feeling of being in a lo — Graham Swift
If you can't stand your own company alone in a room for long hours, or, when it gets tough, the feeling of being in a lo — Graham Swift
If you can't stand your own company alone in a room for long hours, or, when it gets tough, the feeling of being in a lo — Graham Swift
If you can't stand your own company alone in a room for long hours, or, when it gets tough, the feeling of being in a lo — Graham Swift
If you can't stand your own company alone in a room for long hours, or, when it gets tough, the feeling of being in a lo — Graham Swift
If you can't stand your own company alone in a room for long hours, or, when it gets tough, the feeling of being in a lo — Graham Swift
If you can't stand your own company alone in a room for long hours, or, when it gets tough, the feeling of being in a lo — Graham Swift
If you can't stand your own company alone in a room for long hours, or, when it gets tough, the feeling of being in a lo — Graham Swift
If you can't stand your own company alone in a room for long hours, or, when it gets tough, the feeling of being in a lo — Graham Swift
If you can't stand your own company alone in a room for long hours, or, when it gets tough, the feeling of being in a lo — Graham Swift
If you can't stand your own company alone in a room for long hours, or, when it gets tough, the feeling of being in a lo — Graham Swift
If you can't stand your own company alone in a room for long hours, or, when it gets tough, the feeling of being in a lo — Graham Swift
If you can't stand your own company alone in a room for long hours, or, when it gets tough, the feeling of being in a lo — Graham Swift
If you can't stand your own company alone in a room for long hours, or, when it gets tough, the feeling of being in a lo — Graham Swift
If you can't stand your own company alone in a room for long hours, or, when it gets tough, the feeling of being in a lo — Graham Swift
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If you can't stand your own company alone in a room for long hours, or, when it gets tough, the feeling of being in a locked cell, or, when it gets tougher still, the vague feeling of being buried alive--then don't be a writer.

— Graham Swift
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