John le Carré: ’I was a secret even to myself’
▻http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/apr/12/john-le-carre-spy-anniversary
Anger, because from the day my novel was published, I realised that now and forever more I was to be branded as the spy turned writer, rather than as a writer who, like scores of his kind, had done a stint in the secret world, and written about it.