Choose language

Forgot your password?

Need a Spoofbox account? Create one for FREE!

No subscription or hidden extras

Login

Lee Child

Read through the most famous quotes from Lee Child




I'd been a thriller reader all my life.


— Lee Child


#i #life #my 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 #gourmet #guy #heading #i

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


#censorship #common #common sense #especially #government

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


— Lee Child


#books #discovered #hotels #i #left

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


#difficult #gap #going #having #home

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


#case #character #fascinating #first #first time

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


— Lee Child


#anybody #know #personal #problem #sad

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


— Lee Child


#book #character #move #screen #tense

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


— Lee Child


#car #cars #climate #fantastic #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


#authors #better #care #considerably #female






About Lee Child

Lee Child Quotes




Did you know about Lee Child?

Grant has said that he chose the name Reacher for the central character in his novels because he is himself tall and in a supermarket (Asda in Kendal Cumbria when he was living in Kirkby Lonsdale) his wife Jane told him: "Hey if this writing thing doesn't pan out you could always be a reacher in a supermarket. Novels and awards


Other awards
2005 The Bob Kellogg Good Citizen Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Internet Writing Community
2013 Cartier Diamond Dagger lifetime achievement by the Crime Writers' Association


Short stories
"James Penney's New Identity" from Fresh Blood 3 (edited by Mike Ripley and Maxim Jakubowski) and from Thriller (US)
"The Snake Eater by the Numbers" from Like a Charm (edited by Karin Slaughter)
"Ten Keys" from The Cocaine Chronicles (edited by Jervey Tervalon and Gary Phillips)
"The Greatest Trick of All" from Greatest Hits (edited by Robert J Randisi)
"Guy Walks Into a Bar. R.

Jim Grant (born 29 October 1954) better known by his pen name Lee Child is a British thriller writer. Each of Child's novels follows the adventures of a former American military policeman Jack Reacher who wanders the United States.

back to top