Happy Birthday, Lee Child born 29 October 1954.
Lee Child’s Top 10 Quotes On Writing
- Don’t get it right - get it WRITTEN.
- Hope for the best, plan for the worst.
- How does a guy raised in Birmingham write something as distinctly American as the Jack Reacher crime series? The answer is: I really can’t help it. I live in America. I travel a lot. I see stuff everywhere. And it makes an impression.
- It’s a kind of Zen question: if you write a book and no one reads it, is it really a book?
- 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’.
- Read, read, read. You can’t get anywhere unless you are an obsessive, continuous reader of other stuff.
- 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.
- I love touring. The rest of the year is very solitary, so it’s great to get out with real live humans. I love to talk about books - mine or anybody else’s. Can’t think of anything odd that happened this time around. I met a few people I’d emailed with extensively - strange to put faces to names.
- Well, writers become writers because they love words and language, and attempting a non-native style is all part of the fun.
- I have the ‘thing’ worked out - the trick or the surprise or the pivotal fact. Then I just start somewhere and let the story work itself out.
Lee Child is a British thriller writer best known for his Jack Reacher novels.
From Writers Write
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