Graham Greene Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.

  Graham Greene

  Typewriters, Hands, Two

  International Herald Tribune, October 07, 1977.

• 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 and journalists are trying to write fiction.

  Graham Greene

  Fake People, Distance, Writing

  Graham Greene (1993). “Mornings in the dark: the Graham Greene film reader”, Carcanet Press Ltd.

• People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.

  Graham Greene

  Men, People, Needs

  Graham Greene (1973). “The Portable Graham Greene”

• Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.

  Graham Greene

  Children, Dark, Tunnels

• A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous.

  Graham Greene

  Men, Good Man, Ordinary

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

• The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see - every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.

  Graham Greene

  Party, Inspiration, People

• Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

  Graham Greene

  Dumb, Would Be, Literature

  'The Quiet American' (1955) pt. 1, ch. 3

• Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.

  Graham Greene

  Beautiful, Clever, War

  Heart of the Matter (1948) bk. 1, pt. 1, ch. 2

• Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

  Graham Greene

  Dumb, Literature, World

  'The Quiet American' (1955) pt. 1, ch. 3

• They are always saying God loves us. If thats love Id rather have a bit of kindness.

  Graham Greene

  Kindness, Literature, God Love

  Graham Greene (1988). “The Captain and the Enemy”

• He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that is where we really belong.

  Graham Greene

  Happiness, Loyalty, Literature

  Graham Greene (1973). “The Portable Graham Greene”

• Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

  Graham Greene

  Reality, Literature, Century

  Graham Greene (1970). “The Collected Edition: Our man in Havana”

• I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman.

  Graham Greene

  Men, Giving, Literature

  Graham Greene (1966). “The Comedians”

• 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.

  Graham Greene

  Writing, Novelists, Literature

  Graham Greene (1994). “In Search of a Character: Two African Journals”, Penguin USA

• Thrillers are like life, more like life than you are.

  Graham Greene

  Literature, Thrillers

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

• The world doesn't make any heroes anymore.

  Graham Greene

  Hero, Literature, World

• If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?

  Graham Greene

  Alternatives, Literature, Mask

  Graham Greene (1966). “The Comedians”

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