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....

Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated....

Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write:....

SIS, the Secret Intelligence Service, also known as MI6, also has no executive powers and operates abroad....

The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither,....

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

It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on the community to which....

I don't know the literary world; I was scared of being confronted with famous names, not knowing what....

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