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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

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Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.

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Americans believe that if you know something, you should do something about it.

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When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more novels under my belt.

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

~John Le Carre

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

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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.

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

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I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price.

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I don't think it is given to any of us to be impertinent to great religions with impunity.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: October 19th, 1931

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