“My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.”

— Graham Greene

International Herald Tribune (October 7, 1977)

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English writer, playwright and literary critic 1904–1991

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