Ian Fleming

A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle.

A woman should be an illusion.

I'm looking for Commander James Bond, not an overgrown stunt man.
- on meeting Sean Connery

You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.

I always make it a rule never to look back. Otherwise, I'd ask myself how I could write such piffle and live with myself, day after day.
- All from Ian Fleming, 1908 - 1964

Bond smoked like Peter Lorre, drank like Humphrey Bogart, ate like Sydney Greenstreet, used up girls like Errol Flynn - then went to a steam bath and came out looking like Clark Gable.
- Harry Reasoner, 1923 - 1991

About: Ian Fleming was born at London on 28 May in 1908. His grandfather was an associate of J.P. Morgan and his father was elected to Parliament in 1910. He was educated at Eton, then Sandhurst, Munich, and Geneva Universities. His first career was as a stockbroker, his first exposure to espionage was as a journalist, but he did have actual intelligence experience behind a desk as assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence (the model for M) during WW II. He left the service intent on writing "the spy story to end all spy stories" and wrote Casino Royale in three months. There were a total of fourteen Bond novels but twenty movies so far, the franchise was simply too valuable to stop filming when all of Fleming's text had been used.