About Quote by Kim Young-ha

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

— Elvis Mitchell

In researching 'The Luminaries,' I did read quite a lot of 20th-century crime. My favourites out of that were James M. Cain, Dassiell Hammett,…

— Eleanor Catton

From Graham Greene, I learnt how to be an accessible writer who grapples with our doubts as sentient individuals.

— Douglas Kennedy

Writing about Africa by Africans has been part of my literary apprenticeship, standing alongside works by authors such as Joseph Conrad, Joyce Cary and…

— Giles Foden

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

I am a Graham Greene fan - I'm just a ferocious reader. I read an awful lot when I get the time.

— Andrea Riseborough

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

Now I basically just read spy stories because they're about solving a puzzle within the constraints of history. It's the tick tock, the clockwork…

— Malcolm Gladwell

Re-reading is much underrated. I've read The Spy Who Came in from the Cold once every five years since I was 15. I only…

— Malcolm Gladwell

You could say that all novels are spy novels and all novelists are spy masters.

— Ian Mcewan

My dad liked more macho adventure books like Shogun or spy novels. My mother reads murder mysteries. In fact, so does her mother, my…

— Christopher Bollen

I like detective stories and spy novels, but I also like nonfiction, and of course cookbooks.

— Paul Wahlberg