Leslie Charteris famous quotes

03-26-2025

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

#Adventure #Tickets #Funny Travel
If I didn't see its place in the Saga when I planned it, I probably wouldn't write it at all.
-- Leslie Charteris

#Writing #Literature #Saga
Everything I write is designed to be milked to the last drop of revenue.
-- Leslie Charteris

#Writing #Lasts #Revenue
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

#Country #America #Borders
I had still never read one of the Bond books when the movie Dr. No came out.
-- Leslie Charteris

#Book #Drs #Stills
Any stupid remark, quoted often enough, becomes gospel.
-- Leslie Charteris

#Stupid #Enough #Quotations
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

#Mean #Eye #Feuds
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

#Believe #Men #Romance
It should cause no surprise that anyone so lazy as myself should be economical to the point of miserliness with everything he writes.
-- Leslie Charteris

#Writing #Lazy #Laziness
I am an absurd idealist. But I believe that all that must come true. For, unless it comes true, the world will be laid desolate. And I believe that it can come true. I believe that, by the grace of God, men will awake presently and be men again, and colour and laughter and splendid living will return to a grey civilisation. But that will only come true because a few men will believe in it, and fight for it, and fight in its name against everything that sneers and snarls at that ideal.
-- Leslie Charteris

#Laughter #Believe #Fighting
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

#Jobs #Thinking #Stories

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