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Julien Green
American
Novelist
About the author
Let us hope that good authors who are bad Christians will find salvation through the books they write.
Julien Green,
American
Novelist
#Hope
#Will
#Books
#Salvation
I enter the world called real as one enters a mist.
Julien Green,
American
Novelist
#World
A scrupulous man will never produce a great novel.
Julien Green,
American
Novelist
#Will
#Man
A child's fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people; it has its sky and its abysses, a sky without stars, abysses into which no light can ever penetrate.
Julien Green,
American
Novelist
#People
#Fear
#World
#Light
#Stars
#Sky
The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.
Julien Green,
American
Novelist
#Heart
#Earth
#Man
What is real is beyond all reach.
Julien Green,
American
Novelist
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.
Julien Green,
American
Novelist
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.
Julien Green,
American
Novelist
#Will
#End
#Man
#Protest
Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not always understand what the author wants of them.
Julien Green,
American
Novelist
#Life
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.
Julien Green,
American
Novelist
#Life
I am probably exaggerating a little, but I owe my equilibrium to ink and paper.
Julien Green,
American
Novelist