“Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they’re casting, they’re dressing the scene, they’re working out where the energy of the scene is coming from and they’re also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader.”
John Le Carre
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“The Secret Intelligence Service I knew occupied dusky suites of little rooms opposite St James’s Park Tube station in London.”
John Le Carre
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“It’s part of a writer’s profession, as it’s part of a spy’s profession, to prey on the community to which he’s attached, to take away information – often in secret – and to translate that into intelligence for his masters, whether it’s his readership or his spy masters. And I think that both professions are perhaps rather lonely.”
John Le Carre
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“A committee is an animal with four back legs.”
John Le Carre
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“I don’t think it is given to any of us to be impertinent to great religions with impunity.”
John Le Carre
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“Ideologies have no heart of their own. They’re the whores and angels of our striving selves.”
John Le Carre
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