"There is no such thing as a secure……" — John le Carre
"There is no such thing as a secure writer: every novel is an impossible mountain."
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126 Quotes by John le Carre
John le Carre has 126 quotes on this site.
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Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.
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A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.
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It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on the community to which…
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Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as…
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But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between what you might call the pursuer and his quarry,…
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My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its…
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History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you…
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A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.
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A committee is an animal with four back legs.
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The longing we have to communicate cleanly and directly with people is always obstructed by qualifications and often with concern…
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The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience,…
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Americans believe that if you know something, you should do something about it.
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More Every Novel Quotes
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one of 23 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Every novel should have a beginning, a middle, and an end.
— Peter De Vries
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Every novel is an equal collaboration between the writer and the reader and it is the only place in the…
— Paul Auster
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Every novel is an attempt to capture time, to weave something solid out of air. The author knows it is…
— Arthur David Beaty
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Although every novel is derived directly from another novel, there is really only one novel, the Quixote.
— David Berlinski
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Everything has already begun before, the first line of the first page of every novel refers to something that has…
— Italo Calvino
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Not every novel that wants to be a tragedy gets to be one.
— Jane Smiley
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The novel since its origins has been the privatization of history... the history of private life ... and in that…
— Jose Emilio Pacheco
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I have written every poem, every novel, for the same purpose-to find out what I think, to know where I…
— May Sarton
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Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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The unfolding of a story is both as exciting and as difficult for each and every novel I've written, regardless…
— Rose Tremain
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Every novel generates its own climate, when you get going.
— Penelope Lively
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Every novel presents a slice of life. A noir policier for example presents one slice, one that perhaps addresses social…
— Alexander McCall Smith
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