Words matter. These are the best Lee Child Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
It’s always tense when you move a character from a book to the screen. Always tense.
For me the end of a book is just as exciting as it is for a reader.
It’s a tough case and the first time Reacher needs to recruit somebody to help him out. He uses a woman he knew in the army she’s a fascinating character.
I love visiting LA. It’s an endlessly fascinating city, and is, of course, America’s entertainment capital. Each time I go, I fall in love with it all over again. That said, it’s not the sort of place I’d want to live.
I wanted readers to be genuinely unsure as to whether she’s telling the truth or lying. It meant making her partly sympathetic, and partly unsympathetic, which wasn’t easy.
It’s always sad if anybody you know has a personal problem.
In principle if I could not have a home I wouldn’t. But not having a home would be too difficult procedurally, going from hotel to hotel, the gap of three hours where you’re hungry and tired.
I have the ‘thing’ worked out – the trick or the surprise or the pivotal fact. Then I just start somewhere and let the story work itself out.
L.A. has a fantastic car scene and because the climate is so gentle, cars can last forever.
I just felt from personal observation that there is nothing more dislocated or alienated than a lifelong military person trying to cope in civilian life. It’s like two completely separate planets.
My mother still calls me Jim and that is about it. Everyone else calls me Lee. My wife calls me whatever.
I was in television drama, which is a first cousin to the movies, and I trust myself to make the right decisions.
I had been coming to America very frequently for many, many years, so I had plenty of exposure – and maybe the best kind of exposure, because I think first impressions are very important. Maybe I notice stuff that is just subliminal to people who live here all the time.
The thriller is not a recent invention. It probably goes back to the dawn of storytelling.
I love Italian food but that’s too generic a term for what’s available now: you have to narrow it down to Tuscan, Sicilian, and so on.
I felt alienated by the experience and decided to stay away from corporate employment.
The way to write a thriller is to ask a question at the beginning, and answer it at the end.
Writing is showbusiness for shy people. That’s how I see it.
What do I miss about the UK? Sadly, almost nothing. Maybe the midnight sun, in June in the north. That’s all.
Yeah, I am pretty sure of myself.
The key to thrillers is vicarious pleasure.
I was fired from my television job, simple as that. Well, downsized, really, a classic 1990s situation.
So long as readers keep reading and my publishers keep publishing, I plan to keep on writing. I’d have to be an idiot to be burnt-out in this job.
I’d been a thriller reader all my life.
I think my books come out very visual, which is an obvious consequence.
She’s a reflection of my fascination with the diversity of America she’s totally normal in New York, but a freak in Texas. There are dozens of such clashes in America.
You know, women are as promiscuous as men and yet, of course, people are inhibited from having an affair or a relationship because the real-world consequences are a drag.
There is nothing wrong with just telling the story.
I have three desks. One empty for paperwork, one for the internet and email, and one for the writing computer.
I grew up in Birmingham, where they made useful things and made them well.