With a novel, which takes perhaps years to write, the author is not the same man he was … - Graham Greene

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The writing of Topdog was a great gift. I feel the play came to me because I realized that my circumstances, while causing me despair and heartbreak, also held great possibility, if only I could see it.

Graham Greene

With a novel, which takes perhaps years to write, the author is not the same man he was at the end of the book as he was at the beginning. It is not only that his characters have developed-he has developed with them, and this nearly always gives a sense of roughness to the work: a novel can seldom have the sense of perfection which you find in Chekhov's story, The Lady with the Dog.

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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.

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Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt

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He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.

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Hate is a lack of imagination.

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