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'The Third Man,' directed by Carol Reed and written by Graham Greene, is, quite simply, one ... ELVIS MITCHELL Graham Greene, as I understand it, was quite outspoken in his criticism of American foreign policy.
BRENDAN FRASER
I don't give plots to Harold Robbins or Graham Greene, because they don't need them, but a l... MICHAEL KORDA
Graham Greene famously said that all writers need a chip of ice in their heart; Cusk can come across... JULIE BURCHILL We had all these famous writers in Sweden and from all over the world home at dinner. I wanted to be...
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LESLIE JAMISON
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ERNEST J. GAINES
My family and our neighbors and friends thought of Africa and its Africans as extensions of the ster... HENRY LOUIS GATES
From Graham Greene, I learnt how to be an accessible writer who grapples with our doubts as sentient... DOUGLAS KENNEDY We've inherited many ideas about writing that emerged in the eighteenth century, especially an inter...
JAMES SHAPIRO Music has always been a huge passion in my life. I've just had such success with my acting that ...
OLIVIA D'ABO
My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good w... JAMES D. WATSON For a while we were chasing a book by Graham Greene to do Brighton Rock as a musical. We didn't ...
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HOWARD JACOBSON
'The Secret Agent,' Joseph Conrad's 1907 novel about an anarchist plot to blow up the Ro... TOM REISS Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the...
PATRICK WHITE
Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, Albert Camus, Graham Greene - they influenced my life to a profound exte... PAUL THEROUX
That there is a Devil, is a thing doubted by none but such as are under the influences of the Devil. COTTON MATHER
Africa! Africa! Africa! Africa my motherland!
Africa, your people cries for you!
Afr...
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the
borrower, among good authors is ac... JOHN MILTON This is too much reality for a Friday.
AS GOOD AS IT GETS
When I get asked about novelists I like, they tend to be white, male, and British, like Graham Green... ALAN FURST
Copywriters, journalists, mainstream authors, ghostwriters, bloggers and advertising creatives have ... SARA SHERIDAN “A writer soon learns that easy to read is hard to write ...”
CJ HECK
Lauren Conrad has been described as one of the first people to significantly benefit from the popula... FABRIZIO MOREIRA
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial ... BERTOLT BRECHT
He's satisfied with himself. If you have a soul you can't be satisfied. GRAHAM GREENE What happens in China and Vietnam is not only going to affect China and Vietnam, but it will affect ...
JAMES ADAMS
The Asiatics and the Africans, such as the Russians, the Arabs, the Hindus, are increasing with mark... ALEXIS CARREL
It is a lie to write in such way as to be rewarded by fame offered you by some snobbish quasi-litera... RAY BRADBURY
Learn as much by writing as by reading. LORD ACTON
Certainly, my exposure in high school to writers like Flannery O'Connor, Shusaku Endo, Fyodor Do... PHIL KLAY
My parents were interested in history and the world. My father read Graham Greene and Georges Simeno... ROBERT HARRIS My literary heroes were mostly women writers and thinkers - Joy Williams, Joan Didion, Anne Sexton, ...
ALEXANDER CHEE
I could hear music playing in the background of works by certain authors, like Poe and Shakespeare. ... JILL SCOTT Try imagining James Joyce not writing about being a Catholic.
VICTOR LAVALLE I'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro.
AMY WALDMAN I'm as much influenced by Joseph Smith and the Mormons as I am, more so, than by Eliot. Actually...
MARGUERITE YOUNG
Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil. NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI What happens in China and Vietnam is not only going to affect China and Vietnam, but it will affect ...
JAMES ADAMS The year 2005 has been a year of extremes. We had extreme influences, such as hurricanes, on all thr...
DAN MACK
If you look at history you'll find that no state has been so plagued by its rulers as when power has... DESIDERIUS ERASMUS
Africa for the Africans... at home and abroad! MARCUS GARVEY
The idea of copyright did not exist in ancient times, when authors frequently copied other authors a... RICHARD STALLMAN
The idea of copyright did not exist in ancient times, when authors frequently copied other authors a... RICHARD STALLMAN
My mind wanders terribly. I'm not wholly annoyed by my daydreaming as it has been immense use to... JASPER FFORDE
As far as single payer, it works in Canada. It works incredibly well in Scotland. DONALD TRUMP
Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writ... RAYMOND CHANDLER You almost never see work of consequences being accomplished by one person alone. Everyone works as ...
BOB BECKER American culture, including its literature, has been enriched over many decades by the work of its i...
ALVIN ROSENFELD He is accepted by all of us because he works hard and he doesn't complain about anything...We have b...
ADAM GERVAIS I wanted to write as well as I possibly could to deal with life-and-death problems in contemporary s...
ROSS MACDONALD
As long as I can remember, I've been writing - first poems, then stories, and by my early teenag... NATHANIEL PHILBRICK
Africans are on the front lines of humanitarian efforts, distributing life-saving aid in dangerous e... JOHN PRENDERGAST Conrad tillhör de sjömän som får uppleva hur ångan triumferar och seglen försvinner från have...
OLOF LAGERCRANTZ
When most people in the West think about Africa, is their first thought about the game reserves and ... DJIMON HOUNSOU When I was hiking, I would bring the literary works that were about that place in my pack - and I wo...
IAN MARSHALL
Standing as I do, with my hand upon this staff, and under the folds of the American flag, I ask you ... ABRAHAM LINCOLN Standing out as a writer today requires more than a bright idea and limpid prose. Authors need to be...
DAVE MORRIS
For as long as I can remember, I have been passionately intrigued by 'Africa,' by the word i... HENRY LOUIS GATES
I got a lot of influences. I got relevant influences today. I got influences that you wouldn't e... LIL UZI VERT
My writing has been shaped by the three countries - Sri Lanka, the Philippines and England - I have ... ROMESH GUNESEKERA I have been shaped by my mistakes and disappointments - just as I have been shaped by my successes.
JANICE DICKINSON
The part of my writing I find the most rewarding is when people write to me or speak to me in public... SIDNEY SHELDON
You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die. CARLOS FUENTES This program has marked the first time in our history that Africans have been able to immigrate by c...
BRUCE MORRISON
New legislation has just been adopted by the International Labour Organization on the Worst Forms of... CAROL BELLAMY The historic earnings generated by ECI have been poor and the heavy administrative burden of running...
JAMES DAWSON In addition to the artistic influences, I am influenced by my current private life, my feelings abou...
FRANK AUERBACH Musical theatre is something that I always wanted to be a part of, and my first ever role on the Wes...
GARETH GATES
Since I make my living as a literary journalist, not a book scout, I spend inordinate amounts of tim... MICHAEL DIRDA A lot of teenagers write to me and say "I want to write a book. I want to get published." And those ...
MAUREEN JOHNSON The rate of increase in Durham County has not been so strong as to cause any concern on my part abou...
BERNARD HELM I'm obviously delighted that my leadership has been given such a vote of confidence by the membershi...
DAVID PICKERING My heart no longer felt as if it belonged to me. It now felt as it had been stolen, torn from my che...
MEREDITH T. TAYLOR
Who’s to say what a ‘literary life’ is? As long as you are writing often, and writing well, yo... ROMAN PAYNE
I do not start with a full knowledge of the facts; the whole attraction of writing history is to edu... MICHAEL KORDA
The people and the cultures of what is known as Africa are older than the word 'Africa.' Acc... JOHN HENRIK CLARKE
Africa is going through its own historical process of state formation just as Europe and America did... JOHN PRENDERGAST Death is not scary enough and not so sweet life of the human foot leaves gentility.
IMAM ALI (AS) It was always our position that what was reported in the book _ and that which was complained of by ...
HOWARD WINKLER
Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that. DESMOND TUTU There's no such thing as 'facts of life'. Only standing theories that haven't been d...
SIMON TRAVAGLIA
Feast of Joseph of Nazareth Men today do not, perhaps, burn the Bible, nor does the Roman Cathol... FRANCIS SCHAEFFER The works of art, by being publicly exhibited and offered for sale, are becoming articles of trade, ...
PRINCE ALBERT
The white man is not indigenous to Africa. Africa is for Africans. Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans. ROBERT MUGABE For me, it's all about The Dubliners by James Joyce. I love The Dead.
EVAN DANDO We are now part of a bass community. You came here today by yourself, now you're part of a family, a...
GERALD VEASLEY As the news agenda goes into warp speed, it becomes ever more difficult for authors writing about cu...
HEATHER BROOKE
My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my ... SAINT TERESA OF AVILA For the most part, the game had been decided by then. We had a really solid game plan and the team e...
AL COATES
As a man may know about Africa either by going there personally or by reading descriptions written b... MAX HEINDEL
Never before in modern times has so much of the world been simultaneously hit by a confluence of eco... TIMOTHY GEITHNER I love new writing, new blood, modern works by unknown writers.
JOSEPH FIENNES
My writing process, such as it is, consists of a lot of noodling, procrastinating, dawdling, and avo... AMY BLOOM We're all - especially myself - influenced by old-school music, but we all listen to some new-school...
ALAN EVANS My life has been blessed by tremendous experiences. I pledge to serve this great community for as lo...
FRAN CURRY
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