Who knows whether there may not be a moment in childhood when the world changes forever, like making a face when the clock strikes?
Graham GreeneSo much of a novelist's writing, as I have said, takes place in the unconscious: in those depths the last word is written before the first word appears on the paper. We remember details of our story, we do not invent them.
Graham GreeneSo much of life [is] a putting-off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing [is] ever lost by delay.
Graham GreeneWhen I began to write our story down, I thought I was writing a record of hate, but somehow the hate has got mislaid and all I know is that in spite of her mistakes and her unreliability, she was better than most. It's just as well that one of us should believe in her: she never did in herself.
Graham Greene