In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
quote by Graham Greene
Added by Veronica Serbanoiu
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
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.
quote by Graham Greene
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
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.
quote by Graham Greene
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
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.
quote by Graham Greene
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
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.
quote by Graham Greene
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
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?
quote by Graham Greene
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
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.
quote by Graham Greene
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don't, why should we? They talk about people and the proletariat; I talk about the suckers and the mugs. It's the same thing.
quote by Graham Greene
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
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.
quote by Graham Greene
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
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.
quote by Graham Greene
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
