It is the story-teller's task to elicit sympathy and a meas… - Graham Greene

" "
It is the story-teller's task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.

Graham Greene

Sources available for members. Sign up free to see where this quote comes from

English

Collect this quote

About Graham Greene

Henry Graham Greene, OM, CH (2 October 1904 – 3 April 1991) was an English novelist, playwright, short story writer, travel writer and critic whose works explore the ambivalent moral and political issues of the modern world.

Also Known As

Birth Name: Henry Graham Greene

Alternative Names: Greene, Graham

All quotes from Graham Greene Similar Quotes by other Originators

Originators like Graham Greene:

E. M. Forster John Steinbeck John Irving William Faulkner Norman Mailer

Additional quotes by Graham Greene

It was not the kind of surroundings in which any one with free will — if such a man existed — would have chosen to await death.

Heresy is only another word for freedom of thought.

He knew everything in theory, nothing in practice... He knew the moves, he'd never played the game.

It is the story-teller's task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval. - Graham Greene

About Graham Greene

Also Known As

Additional quotes by Graham Greene