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Charles McCarry
American Writer
Born: 1930
CIA Intelligence Me People Writing You
Related authors: Dale Carnegie Denis Waitley Dr. Seuss H. L. Mencken Napoleon Hill Ray Bradbury W. E. B. Du Bois William Arthur Ward
Espionage and counterespionage go together like horse and carriage. Charles McCarry
Together Carriage Horse Like Go Espionage
Usually after finishing a novel, I have a head full of bad ideas for the next one. Charles McCarry
Bad Bad Ideas Finishing Head Ideas After Next Full Novel
I've always been baffled by critics of the CIA, who are horrified that it does illegal things. That is the purpose of an intelligence service: to perform illegal acts. Charles McCarry
Service CIA Intelligence Critics Horrified Purpose Baffled Perform Does Always Been Illegal Who Acts Things
People are dying to tell you their secrets; it's just a matter of getting the conversation going in the right direction. If you just let people fill the silence, they will let you the most extraordinary things. I sometimes wonder if afterward they remember what they've said. Charles McCarry
Silence You Conversation People Sometimes Remember Matter Will Extraordinary Extraordinary Things Secrets Tell Direction Most Said Wonder Getting Going Just Dying Afterwards Fill Right Things Right Direction
I don't feel when I'm writing that I'm drawing from any other writer, but of course I must be. The writers I've admired have been not so very different from myself: Evelyn Waugh, for example, that kind of crystalline prose. And I've always admired W. Somerset Maugham more than any other writer. Charles McCarry
Myself Writing Example Other Drawing Kind Must Admired More Writer Writers Prose Feel For Example Course Always Been Very Than Any Different
I write in a very peculiar way. I think about a book for 25 or 30 years in a kind of inchoate way, and at one point or another, I realize the book is ready to be written. I usually have a character, a first line, and general idea of what the book is going to be about. Charles McCarry
Character Book First Think Way Kind About General Point Write Written Idea Another Ready Line Years Very Going Realize Peculiar
As an old man who remembers the intellectual exhilaration and the pleasure of having done good work that characterized the CIA when it was young, I wonder if it might not be better to speak and think in terms of restoring its culture. Charles McCarry
Work Good Man Culture CIA Speak Better Old Good Work Young Think Pleasure Characterized Restoring Having Remembers Terms Exhilaration Intellectual Wonder Done Might Old Man Who
Anything that's secret, clandestine, loaded with such a supercargo of speculation, misinformation, disinformation and, for that matter, accurate revelations, creates an appetite. Charles McCarry
Matter Secret Misinformation Revelations Accurate Anything Disinformation Creates Appetite Loaded Speculation
If I were to give you a list of names of the people, world political figures, who have been assisted by the CIA, and even assisted to office around the world, you'd be astonished and probably wouldn't believe it. But it's very long, and the names are very distinguished. Charles McCarry
You CIA People World Political Long Believe Astonished Distinguished Give Names Around Were Been Very Office List Who Figures Even Assisted

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