Julien Green
Julien Green
Julien Greenwas an American writer who authored several novels, a four-volume autobiographyand his famous Diary. He wrote primarily in French and was the first non-French national to be elected to the Académie française...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth6 September 1900
CityParis, France
CountryUnited States of America
tyrants consolation superiors
Perhaps the greatest consolation of the oppressed is to consider themselves superior to their tyrants.
lying heart giving
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.
heart men discovery
The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.
secret attention deals
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.
real world mist
I enter the world called real as one enters a mist.
lying drama feet
Thoughts fly and words go on foot. Therein lies all the drama of a writer.
men two together
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.
people popularity dishes
A dish around which I see too many people doesn't tempt me.
orthodoxy doe belief
Anti-clericalism and non-belief, have their bigots just as orthodoxy does.
writing secret important
The secret is to write just anything, to dare to write just anything, because when you write just anything, you begin to say what is important.
happiness dark drawing
Yesterday, happiness came in suddenly, as it used to, and remained for a moment in the great, dark, silent drawing room.
feet goes-on
Thought flies and words go on foot.
time long life-is
Within ourselves is not very far and yet it is so far that one's whole life is not always long enough to get there.
christian book writing
Let us hope that good authors who are bad Christians will find salvation through the books they write.