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

~John Le Carre

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

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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.

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I've always had difficulties with female characters.

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

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If I had to put a name to it, I would wish that all my books were entertainments. I think the first thing you've got to do is grab the reader by the ear, and make him sit down and listen. Make him laugh, make him feel. We all want to be entertained at a very high level.

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I think I'm in the same mood as ever, but in some ways more mature. I guess you could say that, at 65, when you've seen the world shape up as I have, there are only two things you can do: laugh or kill yourself.

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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.

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By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way.

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I am still making order out of chaos by reinvention.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: October 19th, 1931

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