John le Carre

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

— John le Carre

#hand #happen #i #type #write

I mean, I'm in the business of storytelling, not message making. ↗

— John le Carre

#i #making #mean #message #storytelling

I think bankers will always get away with whatever they can get away with. ↗

— John le Carre

#away #bankers #get #i #i think

I think that where I've watched a movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it. ↗

— John le Carre

#been #committee #dread #go #i

I was quite able at the insignificant work I did in MI6, but absolutely dysfunctional in my domestic life. I had no experience of fatherhood. I had no example of marital bliss or the family unit. ↗

— John le Carre

#absolutely #bliss #did #domestic #domestic life

I worked for MI6 in the Sixties, during the great witch-hunts, when the shared paranoia of the Cold War gripped the services. ↗

— John le Carre

#cold war #during #great #gripped #i

I'm really a library man, or second-hand book man. ↗

— John le Carre

#i #library #man #really #second-hand

I've always had difficulties with female characters. ↗

— John le Carre

#characters #difficulties #female #female characters #had

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

— John le Carre

#doing #dozen #eternal #good #nothing

More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature. ↗

— John le Carre

#education #german #having #largely #literature