Quotes by Greene, Graham

Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share. >>

Behind the complicated details of the world stand the simplicities: Go >>

When we are not sure, we are alive. >>

Quotations about Literature

Already the writers are complaining that there is too much freedom. Th >>

The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to mak >>

The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil >>

It is the story-teller's task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.

Greene, Graham