John le CarreA collection of 22 posts

Imagination

Novelists are not equipped to make a movie in my opinion. They make their own m...

Hope

Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor ...

History

History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I ...

Family

You have no idea how humiliating it was as a boy to suddenly have all your clo...

Experience

I was quite able at the insignificant work I did in MI6 but absolutely dysfunct...

Experience

A spy like a writer lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his exp...

Experience

The monsters of our childhood do not fade away neither are they ever wholly mon...

Education

More particularly having a largely German-oriented education has made me very r...

Business

I mean I'm in the business of storytelling not message making.

Age

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