Lee Child
Lee Child
Jim Grant, better known by his pen name Lee Child, is a British thriller writer known for the Jack Reacher book series. This follows the adventures of a former American military policeman, Jack Reacher, who wanders the United States. His first novel, Killing Floor, won the Anthony Award for Best First Novel...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth29 October 1954
character games floating
Everything you could want - action, suspense, character and setting, all floating on the easy lyricism of a fine writer at the top of his game.
imagination today fiction
The most sustained feat of imagination in mystery fiction today.
government printing currency
Printing currency for foreigners to buy is the best racket a government can get into.
mistake work-out long
Evaluate. Long experience had taught me to evaluate and assess. When the unexpected gets dumped on you, don’t waste time. Don’t figure out how or why it happened. Don’t recriminate. Don’t figure out whose fault it is. Don’t work out how to avoid the same mistake next time. All of that you do later. If you survive.
despair needs towns
That should be your town motto. It's all I ever hear. Like: New Hampshire, Live Free or Die. It should be: Despair, You Need To Leave Now.
book writing kind
It's a kind of zen question: if you write a book and no one reads it, is it really a book?
character evil doubt
Intensely vivid characters, terrible crimes, and a brutal deep-frozen landscape all prove beyond a reasonable doubt that cold nurtures good and evil as readily as heat ... and that Giles Blunt is a really tremendous crime novelist.
actors
Most actors are small, anyway - at least compared to me.
book moving character
It's always tense when you move a character from a book to the screen. Always tense.
problem knows ifs
It's always sad if anybody you know has a personal problem.
guy meaning-of-life life-is
Some old guy once said that the meaning of life is that it ends.
book reading airplane
I've discovered writers by reading books left in airplane seats and weird hotels.
writing wish fulfillment
All of us write wish fulfillment.
thinking years america
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.