List of Julien Green Quotes

If People Only Knew What Lies At The Heart Of My Novels! What A Tumult Of Desires These Carefully Written Pages Conceal! I Sometimes Have A Loathing For The Furious Cravings That Give Me No Peace Except When I Am Working.

Thoughts Fly And Words Go On Foot. Therein Lies All The Drama Of A Writer.

A Scrupulous Man Will Never Produce A Great Novel.

Perhaps The Greatest Consolation Of The Oppressed Is To Consider Themselves Superior To Their Tyrants.

Let Us Hope That Good Authors Who Are Bad Christians Will Find Salvation Through The Books They Write.

I Have Always Thought That By Observing Things With A Great Deal Of Attention You Eventually Wrest Some Of Their Secrets From Them, Making Them Utter What They Would Most Like To Keep To Themselves.

Anti-clericalism And Non-belief, Have Their Bigots Just As Orthodoxy Does.

A Dish Around Which I See Too Many People Doesn't Tempt Me.

I Am Probably Exaggerating A Little, But I Owe My Equilibrium To Ink And Paper.

The Man I Am Will Always Raise A Protest Against The Man I Wanted To Be And The Two Will Live Together To The End, But The Man I Wanted To Be Will Be The One On Whom Judgement Will Be Passed.

Yesterday, Happiness Came In Suddenly, As It Used To, And Remained For A Moment In The Great, Dark, Silent Drawing Room.

Thought Flies And Words Go On Foot.