Accessible Quote by Douglas Kennedy

As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I…

— Julie Burchill

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…

— Ross Macdonald

That's all you do in life: you find your perch, and if it suits you, just carry on. There's nothing Graham Greene about it.

— Lawrence Osborne

'The Third Man,' directed by Carol Reed and written by Graham Greene, is, quite simply, one of the finest movies ever made.

— Elvis Mitchell

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…

— Leslie Cockburn

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…

— Neil Tennant

My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers.

— James D. Watson

You have the older generation like Iris Murdoch and Angus Wilson who are not as old as Graham Greene, but still are coming on.…

— William Golding

“So, what do you go for in a girl?” He crows, lifting a lager to his lips Gestures where his mate sits Downs his…

— Mark Grist

My parents were interested in history and the world. My father read Graham Greene and Georges Simenon and was a strong trade unionist and…

— Robert Harris

I work every day until I do not have more to say. I learned from Graham Greene that a very good way is to…

— Henning Mankell