“A novel is made up of words and characters…” Grahame Greene

“Are the words well chosen and do the characters live? All the rest belongs to literary gossip. You are not in this class to learn how to be gossip-writers.”

A Visit to Morin, a short story by Graham Greene

The prolific Mr. Greene had over a dozen of his novels made into movies, although one of the most wonderful of them was developed as a screenplay first; The Third Man, directed by Carol Reed, starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, and Orson Welles.