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.- Graham Greene
When we are not sure, we are alive.
We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.
Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.
Thrillers are like life, more like life than you are.
They are always saying God loves us. If that is love I'd rather have a bit of kindness.
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The world is not black and white. More like black and grey.
The world doesn't make any heroes anymore.
The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he is alive and you leave it to him.
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.
The economy of a novelist is a little like that of a careful housewife who is unwilling to throw away anything that might perhaps serve its turn.
Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.
Sentimentality - that is what we call the sentiment we do not share.
Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
