Ian Fleming Quotes


People do connect me with James Bond simply because I happen to like scrambled eggs and short-sleeved shirts and some of the things that James Bond does, but I certainly haven't got his guts nor his very lively appetites.


Citations

Fleming, Ian. Interview by Roy Plomley. Desert Island Discs, BBC Radio, 5 Nov. 1963.

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Ian Fleming
Ian Fleming
  • Born: May 28, 1908
  • Died: August 12, 1964
  • Nationality: British
  • Profession: Author

Ian Lancaster Fleming was a British writer, journalist and naval intelligence officer who is best known for his James Bond series of spy novels. Fleming came from a wealthy family connected to the merchant bank Robert Fleming & Co., and his father was the Member of Parliament for Henley from 1910 until his death on the Western Front in 1917. Educated at Eton, Sandhurst and, briefly, the universities of Munich and Geneva, Fleming moved through several jobs before he started writing.