In Search of a Character Quotes

“Africa will always be the Africa of the Victorian atlas, the blank unexplored continent the shape of the human heart.”
― Graham Greene, In Search of a Character

“...to an author there is a certain romance when stray copies of his work turn up in far, poor or abandoned places of the world.”
― Graham Greene, In Search of a Character

“It felt odd and poetic and encouraging coming back after so many years, a shape imposing itself on life again after chaos.”
― Graham Greene, In Search of a Character

“The beginning of a book holds more apprehensions for the novelist than the ending. After living with a book for a year or two, he has come to terms with his unconsciousness — the end will be imposed. But if a book is started in the wrong way, it may never be finished.”
― Graham Greene, In Search of a Character

“The first day one watches to see whether a routine will emerge: it is a routine that makes home.”
― Graham Greene, In Search of a Character

“Memories are a form of simile: when we say something is 'like' we are remembering.”
― Graham Greene, In Search of a Character