Leslie Charteris
Leslie Charteris
Leslie Charteris, born Leslie Charles Bowyer-Yin, 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 charming antihero Simon Templar, alias "The Saint."...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth12 May 1907
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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.
In 1939 I hadn't even realized that this was an immigration problem.
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In fact, it could logically be argued that the man best qualified to review a detective story is an established detective-story writer.
About the Saint's amorous adventures, by the way, I can't speak so brazenly.
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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.