A child's fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people; it has its sky and its abysses, a sky without stars, abysses into which no light can ever penetrate.
Julien Green

A scrupulous man will never produce a great novel.
Julien Green

I am probably exaggerating a little, but I owe my equilibrium to ink and paper.
Julien Green

I enter the world called real as one enters a mist.
Julien Green

Let us hope that good authors who are bad Christians will find salvation through the books they write.
Julien Green

Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not always understand what the author wants of them.
Julien Green

The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.
Julien Green

The man I am will always raise a protest against the man I wanted to be and the two will live together to the end, but the man I wanted to be will be the one on whom judgement will be passed.
Julien Green

The secret is to write just anything, to dare to write just anything, because when you write just anything, you begin to say what is important.
Julien Green

What is real is beyond all reach.
Julien Green


Within ourselves is not very far and yet it is so far that one's whole life is not always long enough to get there.
Julien Green