John le Carre Quotes

Writing, producing and directing, I must say, is incredibly satisfying and gratifying.

It gives me a huge buzz when people say they've enjoyed my books, because this grew out of a hobby, and it's an absolute passion, and it's lovely when I get feedback.

It's a privilege and honor to write and star in my own comic. I can officially cross that off the bucket list!

I love all of my books. They were labors of love; I was striving to create something well done, and I do feel I succeeded.

'The Client List' is my baby. I always tell people, 'It took nine months to put this project together because it is my baby.' And, it really did take that long!

I got to direct a human interest sports drama - to this day, one of my proudest achievements in my career and a source of undying pride.

When you are proud of something you have done, and you have made a film you feel has merit, and it's found an audience and is critically well received, that's a pretty pleasurable place to be. I mean, you don't want it gathering dust at the bottom of someone's DVD collection.

For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded.

Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.

I probably get more satisfaction from making a show than being on a show.

I grew up around books. When I first held the book and it was a substantive, tangible thing, and I thought of all the work that went into it, not just my work but everybody else's and the research and so forth, there's a sense of really have done something worthwhile.

Being a mother is by far my greatest accomplishment.

The best feeling I ever get is when I finish a song, and it exists, and it didn't exist before, and now it's there, and it makes me feel a certain way.

I'm always so proud of everything I work on. I love seeing it.

Finishing books - and leaving the world you've created - is always a kind of emotionally wrenching experience. I usually cry.

I find my greatest happiness in thinking of those days in Homestead when I labored to bring a thing to perfection entirely by myself. In the evenings, I would go into the hills and look down on my work, and I knew that it was good, and my heart was elated.

I remember the first time I held my book, my first book in my hands. I cannot tell you how it moved me.

Most every book I bring into the world is like birthing a baby; it's a lot of effort!

In short, the satisfaction of creating, not necessarily the process, always lifts my heart.

All films that I have done, this legacy, is a like a dream come true for me.

You are carving out a story. You and your colleagues are trying to make something that is bigger than yourself. Although it can be a scary experience because you're putting your work out on the line, it's also incredibly rewarding because a lot of it comes from you.

I wrote 'Triumphant Heart' and it made me feel triumphant.

It's always been important to me to do work that I'm proud of and be part of stories that I'm proud of, so being on a popular show was never really the goal.

Writing a book is like torture that you don't know, but after it's done and there it is. It's a joy like unlike anything else, I think it's the closest that a man can come to knowing what is feels like to have a baby.

It is wonderful to be in on the creation of something, see it used, and then walk away and smile at it.