Graham Greene

Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don't, why should we? They talk about people and the proletariat; I talk about the suckers and the mugs. It's the same thing.

The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him.

Failure too is a form of death.

Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.

The economy of a novelist is a little like that of a careful housewife who is unwilling to throw away anything that might perhaps serve its turn.

God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed - that is the meaning of evolution.