348 Quotes by John le Carré

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

The cat sat on the mat is not a story. The cat sat on the other cat’s mat is a story.

For better or worse, I've been involved in the description of political conflict.

People who've had very unhappy childhoods are pretty good at inventing themselves. If nobody invents you for yourself, nothing is left but to invent yourself for others.

It struck him as a bit unfair that, at the age of eight, he should have manifested the same sense of solitude that haunted him at forty-three.

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

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

There's one thing worse than change and that's the status quo.

A good man knows when to sacrifice himself, a bad man survives but loses his soul.