Graham Greene Quotes

Graham Greene famously said that all writers need a chip of ice in their heart; Cusk can come across as the most beautiful ice palace of stalactites and stalagmites, and some people find her company, albeit by proxy, about as inviting as a long weekend in a walk-in frigidaire.
Julie Burchill

Beautiful, Heart, Long

As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I never converted to Catholicism, happily, but I did do one thing he did. That is, in middle age I moved to a seaside town and got into a right barney with the local powers-that-be.
Julie Burchill

Age, Great, Teen

I work every day until I do not have more to say. I learned from Graham Greene that a very good way is to stop work in the middle of a sentence. Then you know exactly how to continue the day after.
Henning Mankell

Work, Good, After

Graham Greene, as I understand it, was quite outspoken in his criticism of American foreign policy.
Brendan Fraser

Understand, American, Criticism

I am a Graham Greene fan - I'm just a ferocious reader. I read an awful lot when I get the time.
Andrea Riseborough

Time, Read, Fan

My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers.
James D. Watson

Good, Writers, Heroes

For a while we were chasing a book by Graham Greene to do Brighton Rock as a musical. We didn't get the rights, so we decided to create something from scratch, with Jonathan. By that time we were big fans of his work.
Neil Tennant

Work, Time, Rock

I'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro.
Amy Waldman

Taste, Alice, Austen

I wanted to write as well as I possibly could to deal with life-and-death problems in contemporary society. And the form of Wilkie Collins and Graham Greene, of Hammett and Chandler, seemed to offer me all the rope I would ever need.
Ross MacDonald

Society, Problems, Wanted

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