Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes. -John Lecarre

 

Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.


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Berlin. What a garrison of spies! what a cabinet full of useless, liquid secrets, what a playground for every alchemist, miracle worker and rat piper that ever took up the cloak.

John Lecarre

History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose.

John Lecarre

Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.

John Lecarre

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

John Lecarre

The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat.

John Lecarre