Does she have the splinter of ice?
Graham Greene's quote about there being a "splinter of ice in the heart of a writer"?
'There is a splinter of ice in the heart of a writer,' he observed.
Graham Greene, who famously nurtured a "splinter of ice" in his heart, was a master of audience manipulation.
It is he, after all, who gets the splinter of ice in his eye, like the boy in the fairytale.
* * * Graham Greene counselled that you should write with a splinter of ice in your heart, advice I've taken, well, to heart.
If, as Graham Greene famously declared, "There is a splinter of ice in the heart of every writer", this iciness must permeate much of Philip Hoare's body.
"He is so personally charming," Sisman told me, "that I am working to preserve that splinter of ice in my heart that Graham Greene said every writer needs".
Possibly he was drawn to the psychodrama of family life, especially as a writer, with Graham Greene's "splinter of ice", who has always been incorrigibly transgressive.
Bennett Miller's Capote is about the splinter of ice in the heart of the author of In Cold Blood This is not a biography of Capote.
