Quotes John le Carre

A committee is an animal with four back legs....

A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world....

A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream populatio...

America has entered one of its periods of historic madness, ...

Americans believe that if you know something, you should do ...

By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth...

During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't ...

Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer woul...

Fools, most linguists. Damn all to say in one language, so t...

For better or worse, I've been involved in the description o...

Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxe...

History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she ha...

I am still making order out of chaos by reinvention....

I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly f...

I don't think it is given to any of us to be impertinent to ...

I don't think that there are very many good writers who don'...

I happen to write by hand. I don't even type....

I made a series of wrong decisions about moderately recent b...

I think I'm in the same mood as ever, but in some ways more ...

I think that where I've watched a movie go wrong, it's usual...

I'm really a library man, or second-hand book man....

I've always had difficulties with female characters....

Ideologies have no heart of their own. They're the whores an...

If I had to put a name to it, I would wish that all my books...

If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there ...