Writing about magic is harder than writing about spies because you're dealing with something that doesn't really exist.

- Anthony Horowitz

When I think of a story, somehow it just always seems to come out involving spooks and spies and government skullduggery.

- Barry Eisler

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

- Christopher Koch

I play Dr. Karen Boyer in 'Spies Like Us.' She's strong, intelligent and dedicated and just happens to be beautiful.

- Donna Dixon

That world of spies and espionage, there's a coldness to it. That's what makes those worlds fascinating - and what makes le Carre's work so interesting.

- Elizabeth Debicki

There will always be spies. We have to have them. Without them we wouldn't have got Osama bin Laden - it took us years, but it happened.

- Gary Oldman

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

- Jane Austen

From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.

- John Updike

In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies.

- Jack Adams

Female spies typically represented one of two extremes: the seductress who employed her wiles to manipulate men, and the cross-dresser who blended in by impersonating them.

- Karen Abbott