Became Quote by Christopher Koch

There are some who become spies for money, or out of vanity and megalomania, or out of ambition, or out of a desire for…

— Max Lerner

What do you think spies are: priests, saints and martyrs? They're a squalid procession of vain fools, traitors too, yes; pansies, sadists and drunkards,…

— John le Carre

I've always wanted to be a spy, and frankly I'm a little surprised that British intelligence has never approached me.

— Elizabeth Hurley

The world has changed, the CIA is having to change, and again, the challenge for someone like me as a spy novelist is to…

— David Ignatius

A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.

— John le Carre

Spies go undercover. They take on different personas.

— David Leitch

I would have loved to have met some former spies, but they don't readily advertise themselves unless they're not living in Moscow, and even…

— Jeremy Northam

I wrote 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold' at the age of 30 under intense, unshared personal stress and in extreme privacy.…

— John le Carre

I was trained in Army Intelligence, but spent most of my army career in the infantry. But like many people of my generation, I…

— Nelson DeMille

I began writing fiction because it was the only way to tell all the intricacies of a real-life spy story.

— David Ignatius

Many, many years ago before I got into comedy, I applied to be a spy for MI5. I got down to the last 30…

— Chris McCausland

I was initially recruited while I was in business school back in the late sixties by the National Security Agency, the nation's largest and…

— John Perkins