Graham Greene Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• One's life is more formed, I sometimes think, by books than by human beings: it is out of books one learns about love and pain at second hand. Even if we have the happy chance to fall in love, it is because we have been conditioned by what we have read, and if I had never known love at all, perhaps it was because my father's library had not contained the right books.

  Graham Greene

  Falling In Love, Pain, Father

  Graham Greene (1980). “Travels with my aunt”

• Our heroes are simple: they are brave, they tell the truth, they are good swordsmen and they are never in the long run really defeated. That is why no later books satisfy us like those which were read to us in childhood - for those promised a world of great simplicity of which we knew the rules, but the later books are complicated and contradictory with experience; they are formed out of our own disappointing memories.

  Graham Greene

  Running, Memories, Book

  "The Ministry of Fear". Book by Graham Greene. Book 1, Chapter 7, Section 1, 1943.

• A movie is not a book. If the source material is a book, you cannot be too respectful of the book. All you owe to the book is the spirit.

  Graham Greene

  Movie, Book, Actors

• With a novel, which takes perhaps years to write, the author is not the same man he was at the end of the book as he was at the beginning. It is not only that his characters have developed-he has developed with them, and this nearly always gives a sense of roughness to the work: a novel can seldom have the sense of perfection which you find in Chekhov's story, The Lady with the Dog.

  Graham Greene

  Dog, Book, Writing

  Graham Greene (1973). “Collected Stories”

• One's life is more formed, I sometimes think, by books than by human beings: it is out of books one learns about love and pain at second hand.

  Graham Greene

  Pain, Book, Thinking

  Graham Greene (1980). “Travels with my aunt”

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