Graham Greene Quotes

15 quotes by 13 authors

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
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
Graham Greene, as I understand it, was quite outspoken in his criticism of American foreign policy — Brendan Fraser
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
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
I'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro. — Amy Waldman
My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers. — James D. Watson
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
Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, Albert Camus, Graham Greene - they influenced my life to a profound extent. — Paul Theroux
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
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
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
From Graham Greene, I learnt how to be an accessible writer who grapples with our doubts as sentient individuals. — Douglas Kennedy
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

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