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John le Carre

English Writer

Born: Oct 19, 1931

Good Me People Think World You

Related authors: Arthur C. Clarke D. H. Lawrence Douglas Adams Gilbert K. Chesterton John Ruskin Ricky Gervais Rudyard Kipling Thomas Paine

But there is a big difference in working for the West and working for a totalitarian state. John le Carre

Big State Totalitarian Totalitarian State Big Difference West Difference Working

I taught principally German language and literature at Eton. But any master with private pupils must be prepared to teach anything they ask for. That can be as diverse as the early paintings of Salvador Dali or how bumblebees manage to fly. John le Carre

Language Fly Master Pupils Must Be Prepared Diverse Principally How Private German Salvador Salvador Dali Manage Any Taught Anything Literature Ask Teach Paintings Prepared Dali Early

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

Work Best Day Important Give Most Your

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

States Totalitarian No-One West Accountable Impunity Happen Held

Writers are two-home men - they want a place outside and a place within. John le Carre

Men Writers Outside Within Want Place

I made a series of wrong decisions about moderately recent books, and I've sold the rights to studios for ridiculous amounts of money and the films have never been made. That's the saddest thing of all, because they're locked up and no one else can make them. John le Carre

Rights Money Made Films Else Sold Books Locked Locked Up About Never No-One Studios Wrong Saddest Saddest Thing Make Because Been Up Moderately Decisions Them Series Ridiculous Thing Amount Recent

Remember Graham Green's dictum that childhood is the bank balance of the writer? I think that all writers feel alienated. Most of us go back to an alienated childhood in some way or another. I know that I do. John le Carre

In every war zone that I've been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception of why the war was being fought. In every crisis, the issues have been far more complex than the public has been allowed to know. John le Carre

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

Book Made Mistakes Few Though About Talk Unwritten Thank Heaven

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

Type Write Hand Happen Even

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

Library Man Book Second-Hand Really

I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got one immediately available to them, then they usually manage to manufacture it in their private lives. John le Carre

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