“I think, for the writer, rather as for the priest, there isn't such a thing as success.” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“He opened the book at random, or so he believed, but a book is like a sandy path which keeps the indent… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“-"-A book takes me a year to write. It's too hard work for a revenge." -"If you knew how little you had… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“What do we ever get nowadays from reading to equal the excitement and the revelation in those first fourteen years?” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
The subject of a novel is not the plot. Who remembers what happened to Lucien de Rebempre in the end? — 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
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those, who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
A writer doesn't write for his readers, does he? Yet he has to take elementary precautions all the same, to make them… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“...now when I'm writing it's already tomorrow and I'm afraid of getting to the end of yesterday. As long as I go… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“What did the truth matter? All characters once dead, if they continue to exist in memory at all, tend to become fictions.” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
An autobiography is only 'a sort of life' - it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
So much of a novelist's writing, as I have said, takes place in the unconscious: in those depths the last word is… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
One's life is more formed, I sometimes think, by books than by human beings: it is out of books one learns about… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“I recognized my work for what it was--as unimportant a drug as cigarettes to get one through the weeks and years. If… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Yesterday I went home with him and we did the usual things. I haven't the nerve to put them down, but I'd… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one's days. One may be preoccupied with shopping and income tax returns and… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“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
“A ruling passion gives to a shelf of novels the unity of a system.” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
One's life is more formed, I sometimes think, by books than by human beings: it is out of books one learns about… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to… — 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
