Betrayal Quote by Mark Fisher

'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold' was the work of a wayward imagination brought to the end of its tether by political…

— John le Carre

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…

— John le Carre

“Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then.” ― Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly”

— Philip K. Dick

“There began to appear before my romantic eyes...a vast and complicated network of espionage, terror, sadism and hate, from which no one, official or…

— Erik Larson

We have learned in recent years to translate almost all of political life in terms of conspiracy. And the spy novel, as never before,…

— John le Carre

In a certain way, we felt almost like spies in the major label world. We were coming from some other world, and we somehow…

— Lee Ranaldo

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

— 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…

— John le Carre

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

“Intrigue feeds on itself; conspiracies have neither mother nor father, and yet they thrive: the only thing to know is that no one knows…

— Hilary Mantel

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold was the work of a wayward imagination brought to the end of its tether by political…

— John le Carre

What was once a comparatively minor threat - people hacking for fun or for bragging rights - has turned into full-blown economic espionage and…

— Christopher A. Wray