John le Carre Quotes

• Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.

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• For better or worse, I’ve been involved in the description of political conflict.

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• Fools, most linguists. Damn all to say in one language, so they learn another and say damn all in that.

  John le Carre

• Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.

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• During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn’t easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.

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

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• Americans believe that if you know something, you should do something about it.

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

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

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

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• A committee is an animal with four back legs.

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John le Carre (51)

Birth:	19th October, 1931
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Novelist

About

David John Moore Cornwell is best known by the pen name John le Carré. He was born in Poole, Dorset, England. He is a British author of espionage novels and former intelligence officer. He studied German Literature at the University of Bern in Switzerland. He earned a BA degree from Lincoln College, Oxford University in 1956. He then taught French and German at Eton College for two years. During the 1950s and '60s, he worked for both the Security Service and the Secret Intelligence Service. He has written several novels include: Call for the Dead, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (Won- Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel), The Little Drummer Girl, A Perfect Spy, The Naïve and Sentimental Lover, The Night Manager, The Tailor of Panama, Absolute Friends, A Most Wanted Man, and A Delicate Truth.

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