Jack Messenger > Jack's Quotes

“So much of a novelist’s writing … takes place in the unconscious: in those depths the last word is written before the word appears on paper. We remember the details of our story, we do not invent them.”
― Graham Greene

“For writers it is always said that the first twenty years of life contain the whole of experience – the rest is observation”
― Graham Greene

“I always feel apprehensive when someone reads my work for the first time. Most writers are probably the same, with a desperate need to be liked – preferably expressed as lavish praise and uncritical admiration.”
― Jack Messenger, Farewell Olympus