" The basic elements of narrative-timing, pacing, flow, recapitulation, tension, and release-are musical ones too. And where would writing be without rhythm, the large rhythms that shape a story, or the small ones that shape a paragraph? I increasingly feel too that writing isn't about the words in themselves, but about getting words to register and vibrate to things that might lie beyond them or just at their edge. Thus the spaces between and around words can have their unspoken resonances. And what else is music but a communication without words, in which the silences count as much as the notes? " 

- Graham Swift, Making an Elephant