It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on the community to which he's attached, to take away information - often in secret - and to translate that into intelligence for his masters, whether it's his readership or his spy masters. And I think that both professions are perhaps rather lonely.
John le Carre
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- By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way.
- 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.
- 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 mean, I'm in the business of storytelling, not message making.
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