Leslie Charteris Quotes
"Everything I write is designed to be milked to the last drop of revenue."
- Leslie Charteris
"The reason is that for many years I have avoided reading anything whatsoever that approaches my own line of country, out of a somewhat fanatical desire to avoid the risk of unconscious imitation."
- Leslie Charteris
(Related: Country, Desire, Imitation, Reading, Reason, Risk, Unconscious, Years)
"The gleam in their eyes telegraphs only too clearly that they are hoping for a headline, which of course means something disparaging, because nothing makes such good copy as a feud."
- Leslie Charteris
(Related: Eyes, Nothing)
"Others, amounting to four novels and a mess of short stories which I did not think worth preserving, I have done my best to eliminate from the record by refusing all requests for permission to reprint them, and I hope I have done a good job of making them hard to unearth."
- Leslie Charteris
(Related: Hope, Job, Worth)
"In 1938, when I had decided that the only way to see the country was in a trailer, and I built the trailer which I still have and lived in it for eighteen months, and learned America from San Diego to the Canadian border, from Miami to New Jersey, and east to west in between."
- Leslie Charteris
(Related: America, Country, Months)
"If I didn't see its place in the Saga when I planned it, I probably wouldn't write it at all."
- Leslie Charteris
"I had still never read one of the Bond books when the movie Dr. No came out."
- Leslie Charteris
(Related: Books)
"For there is a price ticket on everything that puts a whizz into life, and adventure follows the rule. It's distressing, but there you are."
- Leslie Charteris
(Related: Life, Adventure)
"About the Saint's amorous adventures, by the way, I can't speak so brazenly."
- Leslie Charteris
"In 1939 I hadn't even realized that this was an immigration problem."
- Leslie Charteris
"He believes in romance. He isn't merely going through the mechanical movements of a man in an exciting situation. He is, vitally and positively squeezing the last drop of delight from living the best life he knows in the best way he can."
- Leslie Charteris
(Related: Life, Romance, Delight, Living)