Books Quote by Graham Greene

Typically, a book takes me about a year to write.

— Ted Bell

“Sweat cleaned you as effectively as water. But this was the race which had invented the proverb that cleanliness was next to godliness -…

— Graham Greene

“It was not merely that his brother was dead. His brain, too young to realize the full paradox, wondered with an obscure self- pity…

— Graham Greene

“I doubt if ever one ceases to love, but one can cease to be in love as easily as one can outgrow an author…

— Graham Greene

“We praise heroes as though they are rare, and yet we are always ready to blame another man for lack of heroism.”

— Graham Greene

“The more bare a life is, the more we fear change.”

— Graham Greene

“I spent more time than was strictly necessary in the plush red corridors of the Hotel Metropole in Hanoi. For some reason, I had…

— Katie Roiphe

A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write.

— Rose Tremain

Last year, I didn't even know his last name. But this year? I write it more than my own.

— Anonymous

Thanks!It's not a long book but it's taken a year to write. It's fnially [read: FINALLY!!! YAYAYAYAY!] feeling ready for my editors! Lori

— Auth

Now I found it in writing sentences. You can write that sentence in a way that you would have written it last year. Or…

— Joseph Campbell

Each year, I write out a goal sheet with what I expect. If I showed anybody else my goal sheet, they would have said…

— J. J. Watt