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 eig…

- 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 squee…

- 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.

- Leslie Charteris

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 i…

- Leslie Charteris

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

- Leslie Charteris

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

- 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 there you are.

- 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

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…

- Leslie Charteris