Lee Child Quotes

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.
Lee Child

Work, Start, Fact

Writing is showbusiness for shy people. That's how I see it.
Lee Child

I like food, like any other guy, but it is not the main thing in my life. I can do without it.
Lee Child

Life, Food, Guy

I felt alienated by the experience and decided to stay away from corporate employment.
Lee Child

Experience, Away, Felt

I have three desks. One empty for paperwork, one for the internet and email, and one for the writing computer.
Lee Child

Writing, Three, Empty

A calm environment is for after I finish work.
Lee Child

Work, After, Calm

All of us write wish fulfillment.
Lee Child

British crime stories tend to be very internal, psychological, claustrophobic, very limited in terms of geography.
Lee Child

Crime, Stories, British

For me the end of a book is just as exciting as it is for a reader.
Lee Child

End, Book, Exciting

For men, as they get bogged down with responsibilities, commitments, bureaucracy, it is a fantasy just to think of shedding everything literally, walking away with nothing at all, and just hitting the road.
Lee Child

Men, Nothing, Everything

I do a little fact checking now and then. Other than that its impact is simply that email has revolutionized communication for me, and my website has built up a community of readers, which is a lot of fun.
Lee Child

Fun, Fact, Community

I don't know what the secret is when I am writing it - it really is a surprise to me.
Lee Child

Writing, Secret, Surprise

I don't need validation, recognition or praise. What I need are facts and the facts are that one of my books gets sold, somewhere in the world, every second.
Lee Child

Books, Second, Facts

I grew up in Birmingham, where they made useful things and made them well.
Lee Child

Made, Useful, Birmingham

I had a brief theater background and loved the backstage world there's more backstage work in television, so I saw a job advertised and applied, and got it. That was back in 1977, when getting jobs was easy.
Lee Child

Work, Job, Easy

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.
Lee Child

Time, Best, Live

I have a kind of old-fashioned, artisan approach.
Lee Child

Approach, Artisan

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.
Lee Child

Life, Nothing, Person

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.
Lee Child

Love, Food, Down

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.
Lee Child

Love, Time, Live

I need a stimulating environment to write because my books are driven at 100 miles per hour at a time.
Lee Child

Time, Write, Books

I think my books come out very visual, which is an obvious consequence.
Lee Child

Books, Obvious, Visual

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.
Lee Child

Truth, Wanted, Her

I was fired from my television job, simple as that. Well, downsized, really, a classic 1990s situation.
Lee Child

Simple, Job, Situation

I was in television drama, which is a first cousin to the movies, and I trust myself to make the right decisions.
Lee Child

Trust, Movies, Decisions

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Writer

Born: 1954

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