"A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it."
― John le Carre
Topic(s):
Experience
More From John le Carre
- "I made a series of wrong decisions about moderately recent books, and I’ve sold the rights to studios for ridiculous amounts of money and the films have never been made. That’s the saddest thing of all, because they’re locked up and no one else can make them."
- "I was quite able at the insignificant work I did in MI6, but absolutely dysfunctional in my domestic life. I had no experience of fatherhood. I had no example of marital bliss or the family unit."
- "Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love."
More In Experience
- "You know, it shouldn’t just be about women as heroic figures overcoming things, it just needs to be about women in general getting the opportunity to play a multitude of roles, telling a multitude of stories – just to express human experience from a woman’s perspective. I hope, someday, we can get to that point. I’m all about representation."― Diablo Cody
- "Find what’s hot, find what’s just opened and then look for the worst review of the week. There is so much to learn from watching a restaurant getting absolutely panned and having a bad experience. Go and see it for yourself."― Gordon Ramsay
- "If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger."― Muriel Rukeyser