Top 30 Lee Child Quotes

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It's always tense when you move a character from a book

It’s always tense when you move a character from a book to the screen. Always tense.
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For me the end of a book is just as exciting as it is for a reader.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It’s always sad if anybody you know has a personal problem.
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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.
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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.
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L.A. has a fantastic car scene and because the climate is so gentle, cars can last forever.
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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.
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My mother still calls me Jim and that is about it. Everyone else calls me Lee. My wife calls me whatever.
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I was in television drama, which is a first cousin to the movies, and I trust myself to make the right decisions.
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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.
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The thriller is not a recent invention. It probably goes back to the dawn of storytelling.
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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.
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I felt alienated by the experience and decided to stay away from corporate employment.
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The way to write a thriller is to ask a question at the beginning, and answer it at the end.
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Writing is showbusiness for shy people. That’s how I see it.
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What do I miss about the UK? Sadly, almost nothing. Maybe the midnight sun, in June in the north. That’s all.
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Yeah, I am pretty sure of myself.
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The key to thrillers is vicarious pleasure.
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I was fired from my television job, simple as that. Well, downsized, really, a classic 1990s situation.
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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.
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I’d been a thriller reader all my life.
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I think my books come out very visual, which is an obvious consequence.
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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.
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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.
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There is nothing wrong with just telling the story.
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I have three desks. One empty for paperwork, one for the internet and email, and one for the writing computer.
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I grew up in Birmingham, where they made useful things and made them well.
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