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
book ends exciting
For me the end of a book is just as exciting as it is for a reader.
book thinking obvious
I think my books come out very visual, which is an obvious consequence.
book validation world
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.
jobs real book
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.
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?
book moving character
It's always tense when you move a character from a book to the screen. Always tense.
book reading airplane
I've discovered writers by reading books left in airplane seats and weird hotels.
book writing needs
I need a stimulating environment to write because my books are driven at 100 miles per hour at a time.
new-york children book
Many years from now when your children ask what New York City was like just after 9/11, this will be the book you give them in response. It's an exquisite novel full of heart, soul, passion and intelligence, and it's the one this great New York author was born to write.
fairly nine rule shown unspoken
There should be an unspoken rule that anything shown before, say, nine o'clock will be fairly inoffensive. After that, anything goes.
admit civilised love shoot walk
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.
civilization great
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?
authors female heroines inch male taller
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.
There is nothing wrong with just telling the story.