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Leslie Charteris

Leslie Charteris (born Leslie Charles Bowyer-Yin, 12 May 1907 – 15 April 1993), was a British-Chinese author of adventure fiction, as well as a screenwriter. He was best known for his many books chronicling the adventures of the charming antihero Simon Templar, alias "The Saint."

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I had still never read one of the Bond books when the movie Dr. No came out.

Book, Books, Came, Drs, Movie, Stills

It should cause no surprise that anyone so lazy as myself should be economical to the point of miserliness with everything he writes.

Everything, Lazy, Literature, Point, Writes, Writing

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.

Believe, Everything, Fighting, Laughter, Men, True

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.

Copy, Eye, Feuds, Good, Headline, Mean

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.

Believe, Believes, Drop, Knows, Men, Romance

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.

Adventure, Price, Rule, Tickets, Travel, Whizz

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.

Job, Jobs, Making, Stories, Think, Thinking

Everything I write is designed to be milked to the last drop of revenue.

Everything, Lasts, Literature, Milked, Write, Writing

Any stupid remark, quoted often enough, becomes gospel.

Becomes, Enough, Quoted, Remarks, Stupid

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.

America, Canadian, Country, Diego, Jersey, See

If I didn't see its place in the Saga when I planned it, I probably wouldn't write it at all.

Ifs, Literature, Place, Planned, Write, Writing