Spy Fiction Quotes

I've always loved the Bond films.

For John le Carre, it was always who's betraying who: the hall-of-mirrors kind of thing. When you go back to the '30s, it's a case of good vs. evil, and no kidding. When I have a hero who believes France and Britain are on the right side, a reader is not going to question that.

I don't think anyone has ever succeeded in putting Ian Fleming's James Bond up on the screen. The closest in my opinion is Pierce Brosnan.

The creation of George Smiley, the retired spy recalled to hunt for just such a high-ranking mole in 'Tinker, Tailor,' was extremely personal. I borrowed elements of people I admired and invested them in this mythical character. I'm such a fluent, specious person now, but I was an extremely awkward fellow in those days.

Six Seconds is a great read. Echoing Ludlum and Forsythe, author Mofina has penned a big, solid international thriller that grabs your gut -- and your heart -- in the opening scenes and never lets go.

Bond may be a very international, cosmopolitan kind of character, but underneath it all, he is essentially British.

I'm a huge James Bond fan and watched the movies growing up.

The world has changed, the CIA is having to change, and again, the challenge for someone like me as a spy novelist is to write realistically about where they're actually going.

I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.

I've got so much respect for 'Bond.' It's such an iconic cultural behemoth. I love the whole story - Ian Fleming's stories are amazing.

A lot of the major players in the 1960s were the same as the 1940s and 1950s - Hitchen's 'Sleep with Slander.' Armstong's 'Lemon in the Basket,' which is a fusion of the political assassination thriller and a family drama. And Hughes's 'The Expendable Man.'

Since I was a kid I've wanted to be in a Bond movie.

It's rather fun writing a female spy, because she has so much more kit. Bond never carried a hair dryer or a makeup bag. And he certainly didn't wear an uplift bra.

I cannot even remember a time before being conscious of James Bond.

I like lassic British spy thrillers. Seriously. If the cold war was still on, that's something I'd be writing.

I think I honestly invented my own genre, the historical spy novel.

The merit of 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold,' then - or its offence, depending where you stood - was not that it was authentic, but that it was credible.

Maybe I can become the next James Bond.

I think 'The Spy Who Loved Me' was the best, or rather the one I enjoyed doing the most.

Her Majesty's Secret Service wouldn't have me on the payroll.

The name's Bond. James Omar Bond.

I've known several spies who have wanted to become novelists. And novelists who became spies, of course.

I am indeed a fan of John le Carre's novels.

I've always had a great affection for espionage stories. I like weaving them, and I like thrillers.

The thriller is the most popular literary genre of the 20th century.