Quotes about Graham Greene

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Do you suppose Latin American writers, trying to mix literary modernism with revolutionary politics, resent our blue-eyed exploitation of their continent as a sort of compost heap of the libidinal and the symbolic? Aren't D. H. Lawrence, Graham Greene, Robert Stone and Paul Theroux imperialists? What do black Africans think of Conrad, Bellow, Updike and Edgar Rice Burroughs? Why don't the white guys look for the heart of darkness in their own bathrooms?

Graham Greene once referred to a chip of ice that has to be in the writer's heart. And that is the strain: that you must abstain from relationships and yet at the same time engage in them. There you have, I think, the real metaphysical relationship between the writer and the spy.

If as Graham Greene said every novelist needs an icicle in his heart, a successful editor needs a small iceberg.

Of Daily Mail editor David English

Ferdinand Mount

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.

I like the idea of stopping mid-sentence, like Graham Greene.

Asking Graham Greene if he would revise the last part of the screenplay for a remake of 'Ben Hur':

You see, we find a kind of anticlimax after the Crucifixion.