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Graham Greene (born 2 October 1904, died 3 April 1991) was an English author, playwright and literary critic who suffered from bipolar disorder. After several suicide attempts as a schoolboy, he was sent to a psychoanalyst who introduced him to his circle of literary friends and encouraged him to write. Greene was one of the few authors who managed to combine literary acclaim with widespread popularity, enjoying financial success and associating with T.S. Eliot, Ian Fleming and Noel Coward. His novels include The End of the Affair, The Third Man, The Quiet American and Our Man in Havana.
Following are eight of his quotes on writing:
- All good novelists have bad memories.
- Pain is easy to write about. In pain we’re all happily individual. But what can one write about happiness?
- One has no talent. I have no talent. It’s just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.
- A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.
- The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn’t thought about. At that moment he’s alive and you leave it to him.
- My 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.
- Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
- The 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.
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