Best John le Carre Quotes
- I worked for MI6 in the Sixties, during the great witch-hunts, when the shared paranoia of the Cold War gripped the services. Cold
- More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature. Century
- The Secret Intelligence Service I knew occupied dusky suites of little rooms opposite St James's Park Tube station in London. Dusky
- The world of spying is my genre. My struggle is to demystify, to de-romanticise the spook world, but at the same time harness it as… De Romanticise
- When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more novels… Age
- You should have died when I killed you. Died
- I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got one immediately available… Available
- Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live… Average
- Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the scene,… Casting
- I made a series of wrong decisions about moderately recent books, and I've sold the rights to studios for ridiculous amounts of money and the… All
- I taught principally German language and literature at Eton. But any master with private pupils must be prepared to teach anything they ask for. That… Any
- I was quite able at the insignificant work I did in MI6, but absolutely dysfunctional in my domestic life. I had no experience of fatherhood.… Able
- In every war zone that I've been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception of why the war… Allowed
- People who've had very unhappy childhoods are pretty good at inventing themselves. If nobody invents you for yourself, nothing is left but to invent yourself… Childhood
- We have learned in recent years to translate almost all of political life in terms of conspiracy. And the spy novel, as never before, really,… All
- We lie to one another every day, in the sweetest way, often unconsciously. We dress ourselves and compose ourselves in order to present ourselves to… Another Every
- Cheats, liars and criminals may resist every blandishment while respectable gentlemen have been moved to appalling treasons by watery cabbage in a departmental canteen. Appalling
- I'm really a library man, or second-hand book man. Book
- The only reward for love is the experience of loving. Dream
- Completing a book, it's a little like having a baby. Baby
- A good man knows when to sacrifice himself, a bad man survives but loses his soul. Bad
- For better or worse, I've been involved in the description of political conflict. Been
- There are some subjects that can only be tackled in fiction. Fiction
- Remember Graham Green's dictum that childhood is the bank balance of the writer? I think that all writers feel alienated. Most of us go back… Alienated
- You have no idea how humiliating it was, as a boy, to suddenly have all your clothes, your toys, snatched by the bailiff. I mean… All
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