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Writer Quotes by John le Carre
- It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on the community to which he's attached, to take away…
- But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between what you might call the pursuer and his quarry, whether it's the writer or…
- A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.
- Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.
- 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…
- There is no such thing as a secure writer: every novel is an impossible mountain.
- A good writer is an expert on nothing except himself. And on that subject, if he is wise, he holds his tongue.
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