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 GREENEMy 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 GREENEIt is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
GRAHAM GREENEI can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
GRAHAM GREENEHate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
GRAHAM GREENEWriting is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
GRAHAM GREENEAs long as nothing happens anything is possible.
GRAHAM GREENESo it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
GRAHAM GREENEHe entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
GRAHAM GREENEThey are always saying God loves us. If thats love I’d rather have a bit of kindness.
GRAHAM GREENEHate is a lack of imagination.
GRAHAM GREENEShe mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
GRAHAM GREENEOf two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.
GRAHAM GREENEAn autobiography is only ‘a sort of life’ – it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely.
GRAHAM GREENEA story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.
GRAHAM GREENEThe hands of the guilty don’t necessarily tremble; only in stories does a dropped glass betray agitation. Tension is more often shown in the studied action.
GRAHAM GREENEIn the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
GRAHAM GREENE