Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
GRAHAM GREENESweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
GRAHAM GREENEI aim to be content with what I produce. It’s an aim I never achieve, but I go over my work word by word, time and again, so as to be as little dissatisfied as possible.
GRAHAM GREENEInnocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
GRAHAM GREENEMorality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
GRAHAM GREENEAll good novelists have bad memories.
GRAHAM GREENEThe 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 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 GREENEHate is a lack of imagination.
GRAHAM GREENEGod save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
GRAHAM GREENEDespair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
GRAHAM GREENEAs long as nothing happens anything is possible.
GRAHAM GREENEIt is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
GRAHAM GREENESo it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
GRAHAM GREENEHate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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 GREENEFor an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
GRAHAM GREENE