Julien Green Quotes


"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
(Related: Heart, Earth, Man)

"What is real is beyond all reach."
- Julien Green
"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
"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
(Related: End, Man, Protest, Will)

"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
(Related: Life)

"Let us hope that good authors who are bad Christians will find salvation through the books they write."
- Julien Green
(Related: Hope, Books, Salvation, Will)

"I enter the world called real as one enters a mist."
- Julien Green
(Related: World)

"A scrupulous man will never produce a great novel."
- Julien Green
(Related: Man, Will)

"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
(Related: Life)

"I am probably exaggerating a little, but I owe my equilibrium to ink and paper."
- Julien Green