Leslie Charteris

“Let’s see what you’ve got—as the actress said to the bishop,”

— Leslie Charteris

“It sounds good,” he said. “It’s the caterpillar’s spats!”

— Leslie Charteris

“Simon Templar was a man who couldn’t help spreading melodrama all around him like an infectious disease.”

— Leslie Charteris

Any stupid remark, quoted often enough, becomes gospel.

— Leslie Charteris

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

— Leslie Charteris

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

— Leslie Charteris

“he wasn’t a failure. He made for himself a world fit for himself to live in.”

— Leslie Charteris

About the Saint's amorous adventures, by the way, I can't speak so brazenly.

— Leslie Charteris

For there is a price ticket on everything that puts a whizz into life, and adventure follows the rule. It's distressing, but…

— Leslie Charteris

The reason is that for many years I have avoided reading anything whatsoever that approaches my own line of country, out of…

— Leslie Charteris

The gleam in their eyes telegraphs only too clearly that they are hoping for a headline, which of course means something disparaging,…

— Leslie Charteris

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

— Leslie Charteris

“That, he said, was the way he stayed young—by refusing to take anything quite as seriously as he should have done.”

— Leslie Charteris

“Regretfully, I have decided that if the Saint Saga must remain permanently in print in its entirety, then it can only do…

— Leslie Charteris

I am an absurd idealist. But I believe that all that must come true. For, unless it comes true, the world will…

— Leslie Charteris

In 1938, when I had decided that the only way to see the country was in a trailer, and I built the…

— 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…

— Leslie Charteris

Others, amounting to four novels and a mess of short stories which I did not think worth preserving, I have done my…

— Leslie Charteris

“if you’d only met her in Gotham, for instance, I should have had a song all ready for you. When you came…

— Leslie Charteris

I am an absurd idealist. But I believe that all that must come true. For, unless it comes true, the world will…

— Leslie Charteris

In 1939 I hadn't even realized that this was an immigration problem.

— Leslie Charteris

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

— Leslie Charteris