Completing a book, it's a little like having a baby.... There's a feeling of relief and satisfaction when you get to the end. A feeling that you have brought your family, your characters, home. Then a sort of post-natal depression and then, very quickly, the horizon of a new book. The consolation that next time I will do it better.
John le CarreMore particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature.
John le CarreA spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.
John le CarreAs our Governments spin, lie and lose their credibility, the electorate simply shrugs and looks the other way.
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