Novelists are not equipped to make a movie in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting they're dressing the scene they're working out where the energy of the scene is coming from and they're also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader.
I worked for MI6 in the Sixties during the great witch-hunts when the...
In every war zone that I've been in there has been a reality and then there...
During the Cold War we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there...
The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead.
My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its...
But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between what you might...
Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the...
If there is one eternal truth of politics it is that there are always a...
The Secret Intelligence Service I knew occupied dusky suites of little rooms...
It's part of a writer's profession as it's part of a spy's profession to...
Imagination is not something apart and hermetic not a way of leaving reality...
With the brush we merely tint while the imagination alone produces colour.
Anyone who lives within his means suffers from a lack of imagination.
Sometimes surely truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence to love...
The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character...
I've been acting my whole life. I have this huge imagination! I'm a dancer...
Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the...