9 Quotes by Leslie Charteris
- It should cause no surprise that anyone so lazy as myself should be economical to the point of miserliness with everything he writes.
- Everything I write is designed to be milked to the last drop of revenue.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- If I didn't see its place in the Saga when I planned it, I probably wouldn't write it at all.
- I had still never read one of the Bond books when the movie Dr. No came out.
- About the Saint's amorous adventures, by the way, I can't speak so brazenly.
- In 1939 I hadn't even realized that this was an immigration problem.
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