Quote #15
A major character has to come somehow out of the unconscious.
More from Graham Greene
- That instinct for human character that is perhaps inherent in an imaginative writer.
- 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.
- The world is not black and white. More like black and grey.
- You think it more difficult to turn air into wine than to turn wine into blood?
- 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 …
- Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.
- Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and the simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
- Perhaps his laughter saved them - it must be difficult to shoot a laughing man: you have to feel important to kill.