It was all a back-handed blessing, and my friends were the ones who kept the faith, read my work, and urged me to submit it to publishers (by sending it out for me – they would not hear no for an answer.
About Leslie Banks
Leslie James Banks CBEwas an English stage and screen actor, director and producer, now best remembered for playing gruff, menacing characters in black-and-white films of the 1930s and 1940s, but also the Chorus in Laurence Olivier’s wartime version of Henry V.
More quotes from Leslie Banks
That has always been it for me: family first.
actor (1890-1952)
I look at life, the experiences I’ve had, at the human condition, the dynamics between people, the news (world news), and draw from the compelling realities all around us.
actor (1890-1952)
In all honesty, at that time, I never saw myself as an author… I was just a Mom in a state of panic, trying to enter a short story contest to win the prize money in order to keep the lights on in my home.
actor (1890-1952)
The story grew, got way bigger than the contest rules called for, and next thing I knew I had a book.
actor (1890-1952)
I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination.
actor (1890-1952)
It was all a back-handed blessing, and my friends were the ones who kept the faith, read my work, and urged me to submit it to publishers (by sending it out for me – they would not hear no for an answer.
actor (1890-1952)