Greene Quotes

29 quotes by 27 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
What more delightsome than an infinite varietie of sweet smelling flowers? decking with sundry colours the greene mantle of the Earth, the universall Mother of… — William Lawson
Graham Greene, as I understand it, was quite outspoken in his criticism of American foreign policy — Brendan Fraser
To be completely honest, I didn`t know Twilight was a book. I thank God for Ashley Greene [who plays Alice Cullen]. She`s like, `Did you… — Kellan Lutz
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
Sir Hugh Greene is the man I hold most responsible for the state of our country today. For 11 years hardly a week went by… — Mary Whitehouse
There is nobody else out there that I would put ahead of Joe Greene. By far the best Steeler of all time. — Jack Ham
Of all the criminal cases in which Philo Vance participated as unofficial investigator, the most sinister, the most bizarre, the seemingly most incomprehensible, and certainly… — S. S. Van Dine
Herschel Grynszpan's life was enigmatic, elusive and tragic. The traces he left on the historical record are just sufficient to tantalize and baffle historians. Harlan… — Janette Turner Hospital
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 lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene — David McCullough
I'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro. — Amy Waldman
When I grew up Carl Lewis was still running, Maurice Greene was running - he was that figure I see, like Michael Johnson. I really… — Tyson Gay
Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love. — Barbra Streisand
My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers. — James D. Watson
Lean against the edge, sweetheart. I'm falling off."--Brent Greene — Gena Showalter
The sad fact is that I love Dickens and Donne and Keats and Eliot and Forster and Conrad and Fitzgerald and Kafka and Wilde and… — David Nicholls
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

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