Graham Greene Quotes on Storytelling
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The economy of a novelist is a little like that of a careful housewife who is unwilling to throw away anything that might perhaps serve its turn. Perhaps the comparison is closer to the Chinese cook who leaves hardly any part of a duck unserved.
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It is the story-teller's task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.
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You think it more difficult to turn air into wine than to turn wine into blood?
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Thrillers are like life-more like life than you are ... it's what we've all made of the world.
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A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment from which to look back or from which to look ahead.