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The secret of any kind of reporting is to go with a guide. So if you, you're going to see Hezbollah in Beirut, you go with someone who knows the local people, and you'll be fine.

~David Ignatius

Topics: Any Beirut Fine Go Going Guide Kind Knows Local People Reporting Secret See Someone The Secret Of Who You

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A world in which there are no secrets that can be protected at all is going to be a pretty dangerous world.

~David Ignatius

Topics: Dangerous Going Pretty Protected Secrets Which World

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Machiavelli did believe that it was better to appear to be good than to be good. If you're good, you're just too vulnerable, but if you appear to be good, you get all the benefits plus you can be sneaky and, when necessary, stab someone in the back.

~David Ignatius

Topics: Appear Back Believe Benefits Better Did Get Good Just Necessary Plus Sneaky Someone Than Too Vulnerable You

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If you walk into the front hallway of the CIA, you will see, on your left, a statue of William 'Wild Bill' Donovan. Bill Donovan was the person who created the OSS, the Office of Strategic Services, which was America's spy agency during World War II and then kind of morphed into what's now the CIA.

~David Ignatius

Topics: Agency America Bill Cia Created Front Hallway Kind Left Now Office Person See Services Spy Statue Strategic Then Walk War Which Who Wild Will William World World War World War Ii You Your

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The truth is, as you know, people like us look at what's happening in the world, and then we project it forward. We think, 'If I know A and B, then I've got to know that C and D are coming,' and that's kind of the way it's been with my fiction.

~David Ignatius

Topics: Been Coming Fiction Forward Got Happening Kind Know Like Look People Project Then Think Truth Truth Is Us Way World You

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The CIA in real life, we know, is looking for new kinds of cover. It's looking for new platforms, as they like to say, and it's trying to use the revolution in communications technology, the ability to use all sorts of corporate entities in ways that are hard to detect to get our spies in the places where they need to be.

~David Ignatius

Topics: Ability Cia Communications Corporate Cover Detect Entities Get Hard Kinds Know Life Like Looking Need New Our Places Platforms Real Real Life Revolution Say Sort Spies Technology Trying Use Ways Where

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The world has changed, the CIA is having to change, and again, the challenge for someone like me as a spy novelist is to write realistically about where they're actually going.

~David Ignatius

Topics: About Actually Again Challenge Change Changed Cia Going Having Like Me Novelist Realistically Someone Spy Where World Write

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Sometimes James Bond movies drive me crazy. They're fun to watch, but they don't have anything to do at all with what intelligence officers really do.

~David Ignatius

Topics: Anything Bond Crazy Drive Fun Intelligence James James Bond Me Movies Officers Really Sometimes Watch

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I began writing fiction because it was the only way to tell all the intricacies of a real-life spy story.

~David Ignatius

Topics: Because Began Fiction Only Real-Life Spy Story Tell Way Writing

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As so many writers know, the experience of creating an imaginary world is closer to dreaming than it is to normal, grit-your-teeth work. It's preconscious rather than conscious. Ideas fall into your head, and the book writes you, rather than the other way around.

~David Ignatius

Topics: Around Book Closer Conscious Creating Dreaming Experience Fall Head Ideas Imaginary Imaginary World Know Many Normal Other Rather Than Way Work World Writers Writes You Your

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: May 26th, 1950

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