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Writing 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…
- Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.
- Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.
- 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,…
- Most of us live in a condition of secrecy: secret desires, secret appetites, secret hatreds and relationship with the institutions which is extremely intense and…
- There is no such thing as a secure writer: every novel is an impossible mountain.
- Thank heaven, though, one of the few mistakes I haven't made is to talk about the unwritten book.
- The cat sat on the mat is not a story. The cat sat on the other cat’s mat is a story.
- It is my writing dilemma. The world of spying is my genre. My struggle is to demystify, to de-romanticise the spook world, but at the…
- I began writing when I was still in the British Foreign Service, and it was then understood that even if you wrote about butterfly collecting,…
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