Lee Child Quotes

I write in the afternoon, from about 12 until 6 or 7. I use an upstairs room as my office. Once I get going I keep at it, and it usually takes about six months from the first blank screen until 'The End.'
Lee Child

End, Keep, Write

I'd been a thriller reader all my life.
Lee Child

Life, Reader, Thriller

I'm not really into gourmet food; I'm the kind of guy who just stops by a place that looks good rather than heading for the restaurant of the moment.
Lee Child

Good, Food, Moment

I'm opposed to censorship of any kind, especially by government. But it's plain common sense that producers should target their product with some kind of sensitivity.
Lee Child

Government, Sense, Common

I've discovered writers by reading books left in airplane seats and weird hotels.
Lee Child

Reading, Weird, Books

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.
Lee Child

Home, Tired, Difficult

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.
Lee Child

Time, Character, Help

It's always sad if anybody you know has a personal problem.
Lee Child

Sad, Problem, Personal

It's always tense when you move a character from a book to the screen. Always tense.
Lee Child

Character, Book, Move

L.A. has a fantastic car scene and because the climate is so gentle, cars can last forever.
Lee Child

Car, Last, Forever

Male authors always take care to make their heroes at least one inch taller than they are, and considerably more muscular. Just as female authors give their heroines better hair and slimmer thighs.
Lee Child

Care, Give, Hair

Most actors are small, anyway - at least compared to me.
Lee Child

Small, Anyway, Compared

My mother still calls me Jim and that is about it. Everyone else calls me Lee. My wife calls me whatever.
Lee Child

Mother, Wife, Else

Practically any Western has a homesteader in trouble, and a mysterious rider shows up off the range, solves the problem over two or three days, and then rides off into the sunset.
Lee Child

Two, Problem, Off

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.
Lee Child

America, She, Reflection

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.
Lee Child

Job, Long, Writing

So, how to stay inside the world of entertainment without actually getting another job? I felt the only logical answer was to become a novelist. So I wrote the first book - driven by some very real feelings of desperation - and it worked.
Lee Child

Job, Book, Real

The British regulatory system was revised, so that bigger profits were encouraged, which removed the option of big spending on programming. Quality just fell off a cliff, and all the old hands either left or were fired for being too expensive.
Lee Child

The key to thrillers is vicarious pleasure.
Lee Child

Pleasure, Key, Vicarious

The thriller is not a recent invention. It probably goes back to the dawn of storytelling.
Lee Child

Goes, Dawn, Invention

The way to write a thriller is to ask a question at the beginning, and answer it at the end.
Lee Child

End, Write, Question

There is nothing wrong with just telling the story.
Lee Child

Nothing, Wrong, Story

We know we need civilization and laws and procedures, but isn't it frustrating? Wouldn't it be great if we could just do what we needed to do?
Lee Child

Great, Needed, Laws

We would all love to walk up to someone and shoot them in the head, there's no doubt about that. We're too civilised to admit it, but we're happy to read about it.
Lee Child

Love, Happy, Someone

What do I miss about the UK? Sadly, almost nothing. Maybe the midnight sun, in June in the north. That's all.
Lee Child

Nothing, Sun, Almost

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Writer

Born: 1954

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