top of page
.png){kind=small}
"If I had to put a name to it, I would wish that all my books were entertainments. I think the first thing you've got to do is grab the reader by the ear, and make him sit down and listen. Make him laugh, make him feel. We all want to be entertained at a very high level."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Books quotes
"Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Thanks to bad graphic design, some readers love only the electronic version of some books."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all."
Author Name
Personal Development
"It was also a room full of books and made of books. There was no actual furniture; this is to say, the desk and chairs were shaped out of books. It looked as though many of them were frequently referred to, because they lay open with other books used as bookmarks."
Author Name
Personal Development
"A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out."
Author Name
Personal Development
"To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films."
Author Name
Personal Development
"You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The multitude of books is making us ignorant."
Author Name
Personal Development
Explore more quotes by John Le Carre
"For better or worse, I've been involved in the description of political conflict."
Conflict
"We lie to one another every day, in the sweetest way, often unconsciously. We dress ourselves and compose ourselves in order to present ourselves to one another."
Lie
"Remember Graham Green's dictum that childhood is the bank balance of the writer? I think that all writers feel alienated. Most of us go back to an alienated childhood in some way or another. I know that I do."
Balance
"During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity."
War
"A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it."
Experience
"People who've had very unhappy childhoods are pretty good at inventing themselves. If nobody invents you for yourself, nothing is left but to invent yourself for others."
People
"I think that where I've watched a movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it."
Interference
"The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead."
War
"I'm really a library man, or second-hand book man."
Man
"I think I'm in the same mood as ever, but in some ways more mature. I guess you could say that, at 65, when you've seen the world shape up as I have, there are only two things you can do: laugh or kill yourself."
World
bottom of page