John le Carre Quotes

The Secret Intelligence Service I knew occupied dusky suites of little rooms opposite St James's Park Tube station in London.
John le Carre

Service, Secret, Knew

The world of spying is my genre. My struggle is to demystify, to de-romanticise the spook world, but at the same time harness it as a good story.
John le Carre

Time, Good, Struggle

There are some subjects that can only be tackled in fiction.
John le Carre

Fiction, Subjects, Tackled

To give the best of the day to your work is most important.
John le Carre

Work, Best, Important

Totalitarian states killed with impunity and no one was held accountable. That didn't happen in the West.
John le Carre

Happen, West, Impunity

We have learned in recent years to translate almost all of political life in terms of conspiracy. And the spy novel, as never before, really, has come into its own.
John le Carre

Life, Political, Before

We lie to one another every day, in the sweetest way, often unconsciously. We dress ourselves and compose ourselves in order to present ourselves to one another.
John le Carre

Lie, Another, Often

Well, certainly I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got one immediately available to them, then they usually manage to manufacture it in their private lives.
John le Carre

Good, Live, Sense

When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more novels under my belt.
John le Carre

Age, Pretty, Few

Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.
John le Carre

Writing, Street, Walking

You have no idea how humiliating it was, as a boy, to suddenly have all your clothes, your toys, snatched by the bailiff. I mean we were a middle-class family, it's not as if it was happening up and down the street. It made me ashamed, I felt dirty.
John le Carre

Family, Mean, Down

You should have died when I killed you.
John le Carre

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: October 19, 1931

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