Top 86 Quotes by John le Carre

About John le Carre

These are some quotes by English author John le Carre Writer, who was born on October 19, 1931.

It is my writing dilemma. 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.

It is my writing dilemma. 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

If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.

If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.

John le Carre

I am still making order out of chaos by reinvention.

I am still making order out of chaos by reinvention.

John le Carre

It's necessary to understand what real intelligence work is. It will never cease. It's absolutely essential that we have it. At its best, it is simply the left arm of healthy governmental curiosity. It brings to a strong government what it needs to know. It's the collection of information, a journalistic job, if you will, but done in secret.

John le Carre

The merit of 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold,' then - or its offence, depending where you stood - was not that it was authentic, but that it was credible.

The merit of 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold,' then - or its offence, depending where you stood - was not that it was authentic, but that it was credible.

John le Carre

America has entered one of its periods of historic madness, but this is the worst I can remember.

America has entered one of its periods of historic madness, but this is the worst I can remember.

John le Carre

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

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

John le Carre

I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price.

I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price.

John le Carre

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

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

John le Carre

I made an awful mess of my first marriage. It was hard to live with me being me. I was so abnormal. I mean, most writers struggle. I hadn't struggled. I couldn't suddenly go down to the PEN Club and behave like a normal human being, because most of those guys were struggling to make a couple of thousand pounds a year.

John le Carre

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