INTERVIEWER:
Can you say something about your early reading?
JOHN LE CARRÉ:
I grew up in a completely bookless household.
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From The Paris Review, The Art of Fiction No. 149, 1997
"The one thing you can bet is that spying is never over. Spying is like the wiring in this building: it's just a question of who takes it over and switches on the lights. It will go on and on."
— John le Carré in conversation with George Plimpton for The Paris Review in 1996.
"It was here, under Tessa’s doting eye, that he had planted wedding lupins, wedding roses and, inevitably, wedding freesias for love of her. The weeds came up to his knees, drenching his trousers. A single rose was in bloom." – The Constant Gardener