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Brief about John le Carre: By info that we know John le Carre was born at 1931-10-19. And also John le Carre is English Writer.

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I don't think it is given to any of us to be impertinent to great religions with impunity.

Tags: Great, Impunity, Religions

I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end.

Tags: Book, End, Father

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

Tags: Hand, Happen, Write

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

Tags: Business, Making, Mean

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

Tags: Away, Bankers, Whatever

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

Tags: Committee, Movie, Wrong

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

Tags: Cold, Great, War

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

Tags: Book, Library

I've always had difficulties with female characters.

Tags: Characters, Female

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

Tags: Good, Politics, Truth

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

Tags: Education, German, Literature

Thank heaven, though, one of the few mistakes I haven't made is to talk about the unwritten book.

Tags: Book, Mistakes, Talk

The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead.

Tags: Cold, Dead, War

The Secret Intelligence Service I knew occupied dusky suites of little rooms opposite St James's Park Tube station in London.

Tags: Knew, Secret, Service

The world of spying is my genre. My struggle is to demystify, to de-romanticise the spook world, but at the same time harness it as a good story.

Tags: Good, Struggle, Time

There are some subjects that can only be tackled in fiction.

Tags: Fiction, Subjects, Tackled

To give the best of the day to your work is most important.

Tags: Best, Give, Work

Totalitarian states killed with impunity and no one was held accountable. That didn't happen in the West.

Tags: Happen, Impunity, West

When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more novels under my belt.

Tags: Age, Few, Pretty

Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.

Tags: Street, Walking, Writing
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