Quotes About Le Carré

The great spy novelist John Le Carré suggested this axiom: The cat sat on the mat is not the beginning of a story. The cat sat on the dog's mat, is.

Le Carre's voice - patrician, cold, brilliant and amused - was perfect for the wilderness-of-mirrors undertow of the Cold War, and George Smiley is the all-time harassed bureaucrat of spy fiction.

I've never been able to write a book without one very strong character in my rucksack.

The cat sat on the mat is not a story. The cat sat on the other cat's mat is a story.