Graham Greene Quotes
15 quotes by 13 authors
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As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I never…
— Julie Burchill
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Graham Greene famously said that all writers need a chip of ice in their heart; Cusk can come across as the most beautiful ice palace…
— Julie Burchill
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Graham Greene, as I understand it, was quite outspoken in his criticism of American foreign policy
— Brendan Fraser
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I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers, I'm a genre writer.
— Alan Furst
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I wanted to write as well as I possibly could to deal with life-and-death problems in contemporary society. And the form of Wilkie Collins and…
— Ross Macdonald
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I'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro.
— Amy Waldman
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My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers.
— James D. Watson
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My parents were interested in history and the world. My father read Graham Greene and Georges Simenon and was a strong trade unionist and Labour…
— Robert Harris
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Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, Albert Camus, Graham Greene - they influenced my life to a profound extent.
— Paul Theroux
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After reading Graham Greene and Joseph Conrad when I was a student at Yale, I wanted to live in the world they captured in their…
— Leslie Cockburn
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Writing about Africa by Africans has been part of my literary apprenticeship, standing alongside works by authors such as Joseph Conrad, Joyce Cary and Graham…
— Giles Foden
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I work every day until I do not have more to say. I learned from Graham Greene that a very good way is to stop…
— Henning Mankell
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From Graham Greene, I learnt how to be an accessible writer who grapples with our doubts as sentient individuals.
— Douglas Kennedy
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For a while we were chasing a book by Graham Greene to do Brighton Rock as a musical. We didn't get the rights, so we…
— Neil Tennant
Who Wrote These Graham Greene Quotes
13 authors contributed a total of 15 Graham Greene Quotes as follows: