John le Carre
John le Carre
David John Moore Cornwellis a British author of espionage novels. During the 1950s and the 1960s, he worked for the Security Service and the Secret Intelligence Service, and began writing novels under a pen name. His third novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, became an international best-seller, and remains one of his best-known works. Following the success of this novel, he left MI6 to become a full-time author...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth19 October 1931
death suffering systematic
It's death, that's what I'm suffering from. The systematic encroachment of the big D.
war long cold
The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead.
thinking given blasphemy
I don't think it is given to any of us to be impertinent to great religions with impunity.
people secret secretive
People are very secretive - secret even from themselves.
country vaccines systematic
The pharmaceutical corporations are engaged in the systematic corruption of the medical profession, country by country
believe two america
How Bush and his junta succeeded in deflecting America's anger from bin Laden to Saddam Hussein is one of the great public relations conjuring tricks of history. But they swung it. A recent poll tells us that one in two Americans now believe Saddam was responsible for the attack on the World Trade Centre.
wise tongue experts
A good writer is an expert on nothing except himself. And on that subject, if he is wise, he holds his tongue.
writing mountain impossible
There is no such thing as a secure writer: every novel is an impossible mountain.
order chaos stills
I am still making order out of chaos by reinvention.
thinking i-can
I can't think of anybody worse to live with.
christian real lying
The greatest threat to mankind comes from the renunciation of individual scruple in favor of institutional denominators. . . . Real heroism lies, as it always will, not in conformity or even patriotism, but in acts of solitary moral courage. Which, come to think of it, is what we used to admire in our Christian savior
maturity age democracy
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.
character female difficulty
I've always had difficulties with female characters.
thinking two laughing
I think I'm in the same mood as ever, but in some ways more mature. I guess you could say that, at 65, when you've seen the world shape up as I have, there are only two things you can do: laugh or kill yourself.