Quotes by : John le Carre

Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's....

My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its....

In every war zone that I've been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception....

I worked for MI6 in the Sixties, during the great witch-hunts, when the shared paranoia of the Cold War....

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

History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight....

I've had nothing to do with the intelligence world since I left it, in any shade or variety.

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

It's necessary to understand what real intelligence work is. It will never cease. It's absolutely essential....

Like every novelist, I fantasise about film. Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion.....