"What Greene wanted to do with his life was write novels, and, after a rocky start, he turned them out regularly, at least twenty-four (depending on how you count them) in six decades. He also did a fantastic amount of journalism, mostly for The Spectator. Richard Greene estimates that, in time, Graham wrote about five hundred book reviews and six hundred movie reviews."
— Joan Acocella, “Graham Greene’s Dark Heart,” The New Yorker