Graham Greene quote: So much of a novelist’s writing … takes place in the unconscious: in those depths the last word is written ...

So much of a novelist’s writing … takes place in the unconscious: in those depths the last word is written before the word appears on paper. We remember the details of our story, we do not invent them.

~ Graham Greene ~

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