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the truth was that I had become a secret agent because I could not bear for another minute the pointlessness of life in the real world.
— Charles McCarry
China, hidden and mysterious, has always interested me.
— Charles McCarry
Surely being a Professional Beauty - let alone an ageing one - is one of the most insecure and doomed careers imaginable.
— Julie Burchill
Charles McCarry is the best modern writer on the subject of intrigue - by the breadth of Alan Furst, by the fathom of Eric Ambler, by any measure.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Usually after finishing a novel, I have a head full of bad ideas for the next one.
— Charles McCarry
When it comes to the assignment of blame, the CIA has by and large been a luckless organization.
— Charles McCarry
The choice of daring life is a great spirit.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Espionage and counterespionage go together like horse and carriage.
— Charles McCarry
People come up to me in bars and on street corners and they say to me, 'Hey, Paulsen, have you got any change?'
— Pat Paulsen
But men are men; the best sometimes forget.
— William Shakespeare
I've certainly written a lot of things that have more or less come true. But I don't have a gift for prophecy.
— Charles McCarry
Don't worry about her. It was only her birthday, after all. This was only her party.
— Marissa Meyer
Other writers tell me about these bushel baskets delivered at the front door. If I've gotten 50 letters over the last 18 years, I'd be surprised.
— Charles McCarry
Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
— Larry Wall
When you're doing a character, you want to know the full landscape. You want to know them spiritually, mentally and physically.
— Chadwick Boseman