Quote #13

The world is not black and white. More like black and grey.

More from Graham Greene

  1. 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 …
  2. That instinct for human character that is perhaps inherent in an imaginative writer.
  3. Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and the simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
  4. A major character has to come somehow out of the unconscious.
  5. My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are on…
  6. The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him.
  7. Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
  8. You think it more difficult to turn air into wine than to turn wine into blood?

All Graham Greene quotes