Julien Green Quotes

Julien Green — American Novelist born on September 06, 1900, died on August 13, 1998

Julien Green was an American writer who authored several novels, a four-volume autobiography and his famous Diary. He wrote primarily in French and was the first non-French national to be elected to the Académie française... (wikipedia)

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.

I enter the world called real as one enters a mist.

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.

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

The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.