There was an ITV television production of the second novel I wrote, called ‘Murder of Quality.’ It was a little murder story set in a public school – I’d once taught at Eton, and I used that stuff. John le Carre Read Quote
I want to be like Ford Madox Ford. I want to be talking to somebody across a fire, and I want him to join me and listen to me, and if he is fidgeting in his chair, I know I am not doing my job. I am a storyteller, and I know most people like a story. John le Carre Read Quote
I’ve had nothing to do with the intelligence world since I left it, in any shade or variety. John le Carre Read Quote
When I was 16 or 17, anyone could have had me if they sang the right song and recruited me in the right way. Which is why I’ve always had a sneaking understanding for people who took the wrong route. That doesn’t mean to say I took it or even contemplated it myself. John le Carre Read Quote
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold’ was the work of a wayward imagination brought to the end of its tether by political disgust and personal confusion. John le Carre Read Quote
I began writing when I was still in the British Foreign Service, and it was then understood that even if you wrote about butterfly collecting, you used another name. John le Carre Read Quote
I remain terrified of the capacity of the media, the capacity of spin doctors, here and abroad, particularly the United States media, to perpetuate false lies, perpetuate lies. John le Carre Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I do believe very much in movie as a one-man-show. I think that where I’ve watched movie go wrong, it’s usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it. John le Carre Read Quote
If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing. John le Carre Read Quote
