Occupation: Novelist Birth: January 19, 1921 Death: February 4, 1995
I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want to be alone..
I prefer to live in the country where it's quiet. Woody Allen movies there are dubbed into Italian..
Life is a long failure of understanding ... a long, mistaken shutting of the heart..
Perhaps it was freedom itself that choked her..
But there were too many points at which the other self could invade the self he wanted to preserve, and there were too many forms of invasion: certai….
I think people often try to find through sex things that are much easier to find in other ways..
I don't want to know movie directors. I don't want to be close to them. I don't want to interfere with their work. I don't want them to interfere wit….
In view of the fact that I surround myself with numbskulls now, I shall die among numbskulls, and on my deathbed shall be surrounded by numbskulls wh….
Honesty, for me, is usually the worst policy imaginable..
The justice I have received, I shall give back..
But there was not a moment when she did not see Carol in her mind, and all she saw, she seemed to see through Carol. That evening, the dark flat stre….
Everything human is alien to me..
Every man is his own law court and punishes himself enough..
Honestly, I don't understand why people get so worked up about a little murder!.
For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not..
And no book, and possibly no painting, when it is finished, is ever exactly like the first dream of it..
That wasn't a bad price for a first book. My agent upped it as much as possible. I was 27 and had nothing behind me. I was working like a fool to ear….
How easy it was to lie when one had to lie!.
The conversation seemed just as boring and forgettable as details of American history around 1805, for example..
I find the public passion for justice quite boring and artificial..
I was in New York. Hitchcock was in California. He rang me to make a report on his progress and said, I'm having trouble. I've just sacked my second ….