Graham Greene Quotes About Character

Quotes about: Character

• A man kept his character even when he was insane.

  Graham Greene

  Character, Men, Insane

  Graham Greene (1973). “The Collected Edition: The ministry of fear”

• 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 gets started, and then, suddenly, one cannot remember what toothpaste they use . . . 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.

  Graham Greene

  Character, Doe, Use

• A major character has to come somehow out of the unconscious.

  Graham Greene

  Character, Majority, Unconscious

  "Graham Greene, How Do You Do It?" by Francis X. Clines, archive.nytimes.com. October 09, 1985.

• One never knows enough about characters in real life to put them into novels. One gets started and then, suddenly, one can not remember what toothpaste they use; what are their views on interior decoration, and one is stuck utterly. No, major characters emerge; minor ones may be photographed.

  Graham Greene

  Real, Character, Writing

  Graham Greene, Henry J. Donaghy (1992). “Conversations with Graham Greene”, p.42, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• I write about situations that are common, universal might be more correct, in which my characters are involved and from which only faith can redeem them, though often the actual manner of the redemption is not immediately clear. They sin, but there is no limit to God's mercy and because this is important, there is a difference between not confessing in fact, and the complacent and the pious may not realize it.

  Graham Greene

  Character, Writing, Differences

  Graham Greene, Henry J. Donaghy (1992). “Conversations with Graham Greene”, p.38, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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

  Graham Greene

  Character, Instinct, Imaginative

  "Getting to Know the General: the Story of an Involvement". Book by Graham Greene, 1984.

• Like the characters in Chekhov, they have no reserves -– you learn the most intimate secrets. You get an impression of a world peopled by eccentrics, of odd professions, almost incredible stupidities, and, to balance them, amazing endurances.

  Graham Greene

  Character, Stupidity, Secret

  Graham Greene (1982). “Another Mexico”, Viking Adult

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