5 Graham Greene Quotes on Storytelling

Graham Greene quotes on storytelling

6. 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.

8. 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.

17. You think it more difficult to turn air into wine than to turn wine into blood?

27. Thrillers are like life-more like life than you are ... it's what we've all made of the world.

37. A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment from which to look back or from which to look ahead.