“I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn't poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do. It appeals to the imagination from the start: those colours, green and yellow, create an atmosphere.”

—  J. Milton Hayes

Quoted in Waugh, Alex (1967) My Brother and Other Profiles

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British actor and writer 1884–1940

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