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The Elegant Variation

June 20, 2007

AND NOT OUR FAVORITE FORM, BY A LONG SHOT

INTERVIEWER:  Do you see much of your fellow authors?

GRAHAM GREENE: Not much, they are not one's material.  A few of them are very dear friends of mine but for a writer to spend much of his time in the company of authors is, you know, a form of masturbation.

- From The Paris Review Interviews, Volume II - Coming in November