John le Carre Age Quotations

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.

I wrote 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold' at the age of 30 under intense, unshared personal stress and in extreme privacy. As an intelligence officer in the guise of a junior diplomat at the British Embassy in Bonn, I was a secret to my colleagues, and much of the time to myself.

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.

When you're my age, you have the feeling sometimes that you're seeing the show come round again.

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