Quote #14

That instinct for human character that is perhaps inherent in an imaginative writer.

More from Graham Greene

  1. The world is not black and white. More like black and grey.
  2. A major character has to come somehow out of the unconscious.
  3. 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 …
  4. 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.
  5. Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and the simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
  6. You think it more difficult to turn air into wine than to turn wine into blood?
  7. 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…
  8. Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.

All Graham Greene quotes