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Writing Quotes by Graham Greene
- Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness,…
- A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth…
- The economy of a novelist is a little like that of a careful housewife who is unwilling to throw away anything that might perhaps serve…
- So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one's days.
- And there, in that phrase, the bitterness leaks again out of my pen. What a dull lifeless quality this bitterness is. If I could I…
- Sometimes I get tired of trying to convince him that I love him and shall love him for ever. He pounces on my words like…
- When I began to write our story down, I thought I was writing a record of hate, but somehow the hate has got mislaid and…
- So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one's days. One may be preoccupied with shopping and income tax returns and chance conversations, but…
- Pain is easy to write. In pain we're all happily individual. But what can one write about happiness?
- Yesterday I went home with him and we did the usual things. I haven't the nerve to put them down, but I'd like to, because…
- Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those, who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness,…
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