Best 18 quotes of Len Deighton on MyQuotes

Anyone can write one book: even politicians do it. Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional writer.

Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Well socialism is exactly the reverse.

Do you ever make silly mistakes? It is one of my very few creative activities.

In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.

I store away my experiences and don't feel really happy until I've found a way to write about them.

I think the reason working-class people don't write books is because they are encouraged to believe that only certain people are permitted to write books.

Progress is man's indifference to the lessons of history.

The factory workers say that it's impossible to do anything right. If you arrive five minutes early you are a saboteur; if you arrive five minutes late you are betraying socialism; if you arrive on time they say, Where did you get the watch?

The tragedy of marriage is that while all women marry thinking that their man will change, all men marry believing their wife will never change.

Whatever path you take, there is a league of bad road.

When old men decided to barter young men for pride and profit, the transaction was called war.

Writers are frequently asked why they wrote their first book. A more interesting answer might come from asking them why they wrote their second one.

He had a long thin nose, a moustache like flock wallpaper, sparse, carefully combed hair, and the complexion of a Hovis loaf.

I think Jay is in import and export business as his cards say, but he finally found that the second most valuable commodity today is information." "And?" "The most valuable?" "People with information," I suggested.

Perhaps hell is like that; a discordant confusion of anxious souls. Some argued, some slept, some shouted, some wept, some wrote, some sketched and many conspired about their coming interrogation. But mostly they did no more than stare into space, eyes unfocused as they tried to see tomorrow.

What Douglas had once seen as the attractive over-confidence of youth, now looked more like unyielding selfishness.

When they ask me to become president of the United States I'm going to say, "Except for Washington D.C.

Why do these people love you, Archer? Is it simply because you show little or no response to their affection?