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Authors Graham Greene

I write about situations that are common, universal might be more correct, in which my characters are involved and from which only faith can redeem them, though often the actual manner of the redemption is not immediately clear.

Tweet this quote Read the full piece at The Paris Review Graham Greene The Paris Review 1953
Graham Greene placed his own distinctive copyright on shabby little equatorial police states infused with self-pitying melancholy—Greeneland.

Tweet this quote Read the full piece at New York Review of Books Charles Baxter New York Review of Books 2012
Graham Greene has something like a neo-romantic’s appetite for the disasters and the betrayals of the contemporary world. People and places are sardonically tested for damnation; his ingenious talent has dramatized the old Calvinist thrill.

Tweet this quote Read the full piece at New York Review of Books V. S. Pritchett New York Review of Books 1969

I envy writers like Graham Greene who, year in and year out, do the same kind of novel to the delight of the same kind of reader. I couldn’t begin to do that sort of thing. I have thrown away a number of successful careers out of boredom.

Tweet this quote Read the full piece at The Paris Review Gore Vidal The Paris Review 1974
… for a writer to spend much of his time in the company of authors is, you know, a form of masturbation.

Tweet this quote Read the full piece at The Paris Review Graham Greene The Paris Review 1953

England Made Me

I had to write a pot-boiler, a modern adventure story, and I suddenly discovered that I liked the form, that the writing came easily, that I was beginning to find my world. In England Made Me I let myself go in it for the first time.

Read the full piece at The Paris Review Graham Greene The Paris Review 1953