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Suddenly, the idea of writing a book was like coming home. I didn't tell anyone except my wife, Clare. I just began.

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There is not now, nor I suspect will there ever be, a le Carre novel with ninjas in it. Most serious novelists are wary of including ninjas in their writing. That's a shame, because many much-admired works of modern fiction could benefit from a few.

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My reading of history is that we continually inherit trouble.

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I'm fascinated by human agency - by the process of decision, both in the individual and the mass.

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I studied revolutions at university, and I think each revolution must begin with a moment of 'no.' If enough people have that moment at the same time, it becomes a movement.

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I am an avid reader of comics, though I came to them late.

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Executive power in any nation arguably has more in common with executive power in another country than with the citizens it should serve.

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My wife runs the charity Reprieve, and so rendition, droning, and capital punishment are very much the topics of our dinner table because of that.

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I think the reason I wrote screenplays for nearly a decade was because it was my territory. I could stake that out.

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In the aftermath of September 11, you can't - as Tony Blair was so fond of suggesting - draw a line under historical events. They don't go away. They come back.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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