I have three desks. One empty for paperwork, one for the internet and email, and one for the writing computer. – Lee Child
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
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. – Lee Child
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
The thriller is not a recent invention. It probably goes back to the dawn of storytelling. – Lee Child
My mother still calls me Jim and that is about it. Everyone else calls me Lee. My wife calls me whatever. – Lee Child
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
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
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
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
I was in television drama, which is a first cousin to the movies, and I trust myself to make the right decisions. – Lee Child
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
