“Perhaps it is only in childhood that books have any deep influence on our lives. In later life we admire, we are… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“The influence of early books is profound. So much of the future lies on the shelves. Early reading has more influence than… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
One has no talent. I have no talent. It's just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“That was the worst period of all: it is my profession to imagine, to think in images: fifty times through the day,… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“He had opened the book at random several times, seeking a sortes Virgilianae, before he chose the sentences on which his code… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“She had always called me ‘you.’ ‘Is that you?’ on the telephone, ‘Can you? Will you? Do you?’ so that I imagined,… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“Men can become twins with age. The past was their common womb; the six months of rain and the six months of… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“So much of war is sitting around and doing nothing, waiting for somebody else. With no guarantee of the amount of time… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“Human communication, it sometimes seems to me, involves an exaggerated amount of time. How briefly and to the point people always seem… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“We most of us hesitate to make so complete a statement - we remember and we foresee and we doubt. She had… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“So much of war is sitting around doing nothing, waiting for someone else. With no guarantee of the amount of time you… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
He gave her a bright fake smile; so much of life was a putting off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing was… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“For a moment I had felt elation as on the instant of waking before one remembers.” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“Oh, and there was pride, of course. It takes a long time before we cease to feel proud of being wanted.” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“There is a time in life when a man with a little acting ability is able to deceive even himself.” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Life would go out in a 'fraction of a second' (that was the phrase), but all night he had been realizing that… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
One of the things which danger does to you after a time is -, well, to kill emotion. I don't think I… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
I aim to be content with what I produce. It's an aim I never achieve, but I go over my work word… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“In five hundred years' time, to the historian writing the Decline and Fall of the British Empire, this little episode would not… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“And how is Uncle Edward? or is he dead? I've reached the time of life when relatives die unnoticed.” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“But my love had no intentions: it knew the future. All one could do was try to make the future less hard,… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“I hated her because I wished to think she didn’t love me: I wanted to get her out of my system. What… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
One gets started, and then, suddenly, one cannot remember what toothpaste they use . . . the moment comes when a character… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“What is cowardice in the young is wisdom in the old, but all the same one can be ashamed of wisdom.” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“Knowledge was the great thing--not abstract knowledge in which Dr. Forester had been so rich, the theories which lead one enticingly on with their… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
With Your great schemes, You ruin our happiness like a harvester ruins a mouse's nest: I hate You, God, I hate You as though… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“He had thought that home was something one possessed, but the things one had possessed were cursed with change; it was what one didn't… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Perhaps the comparison is closer to the Chinese cook who leaves hardly any part of a duck unserved. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“He said, ‘Oh god, help her. Damn me, I deserve it, but let her live forever.’ This was the love he should have felt… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“A police photograph is like a passport photograph: the intelligence which casts a veil over the crude common shape is never recorded by the… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
