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....

If you're growing up in a chaotic world without reason, your instinct is to become a performer and control....

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.....