Lee Child

“average height would want”

— Lee Child

“be good. You know, stick”

— Lee Child

“or especially fragile.”

— Lee Child

“Older women … are worth it.”

— Lee Child

“Never hit a woman unless she’s trying to kill you.”

— Lee Child

Never forget a Favor, Never forgive a Slight!

— Lee Child

The key to thrillers is vicarious pleasure.

— Lee Child

“evolution is smart, and it chooses the least of all the”

— Lee Child

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

— Lee Child

I'm not afraid of death. Death's afraid of me.

— Lee Child

Yeah, I am pretty sure of myself.

— Lee Child

All of us write wish fulfillment.

— Lee Child

“key. I need to move up into Duke’s job. Then I’ll be top boy on Beck’s side. Then I’ll”

— Lee Child

“Second conclusion: If you can see a bandwagon, it’s too late to get on.”

— Lee Child

Writing is showbusiness for shy people. That's how I see it.

— Lee Child

Reacher said, "So here's the thing Brett. Either you take your hand off my chest, or I'll take it off your wrist.

— Lee Child

Sometimes if you want to know for sure whether the stove is hot, the only way to find out is to touch…

— Lee Child

Plan A is to hitch a ride out of here. But if they want a war, then plan B is to win…

— Lee Child

I felt alienated by the experience and decided to stay away from corporate employment.

— Lee Child

I grew up in Birmingham, where they made useful things and made them well.

— Lee Child

“Because deep down to the army a wounded soldier that can’t fight anymore is garbage. So we depend on civilians, and civilians…

— Lee Child

“all talking in a tense and agitated fashion, like a scene in a movie where folks find out the mining company has…

— Lee Child

Everything you could want - action, suspense, character and setting, all floating on the easy lyricism of a fine writer at the…

— 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.…

— Lee Child

I wanted readers to be genuinely unsure as to whether she's telling the truth or lying. It meant making her partly sympathetic,…

— Lee Child

“You think you've been in deep shit before, and then you realise you have absolutely no conception of how deep shit can…

— Lee Child

The third guy was different. He was what you got when you ate squirrels for four generations. Smarter than a rat and…

— Lee Child

I was in the machine. My whole life. Then the machine coughed and spat me out. So I thought, OK, if I'm…

— Lee Child

“service. He gives a vague answer, along the lines of wanting to look after the little guy. His questioner is skeptical. She…

— Lee Child

“Enough, a person might say, if that person lived in the civilized world, the world of movies and television and fair play…

— Lee Child

“What else can be bought and sold unobtrusively and is worth that much? Diamonds, maybe, but they’re in Antwerp, not Hamburg. Drugs,…

— Lee Child

“Joe was the only constant thing in my life. And I loved him like a brother. But that phrase has a very…

— Lee Child

“he was keeping track of time. It was nearly two hours since he had last looked at his watch, but he knew…

— Lee Child

“No one expects a head butt. Humans don’t hit things with their heads. Some inbuilt atavistic instinct says so. A head butt…

— Lee Child

“The range had been exceptional. An apartment balcony fourteen hundred yards away had been identified as the rifleman’s hide. Fourteen hundred yards…

— Lee Child

“No doubt about it. The guy was huge. Not quite seven feet, but close. Almost to the ceiling. And he was wide.…

— Lee Child

“Hopeless is hopeless, and don't ever pretend it ain't”

— Lee Child

“intelligence was logged. Sooner or later something would”

— Lee Child

“The best fights are the ones you don’t have,”

— Lee Child

“No jokes, no banter. No pre-mission”

— Lee Child