Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
A handgun at two hundred feet is the same thing as crossing your fingers and making a wish.
Lee Child
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Lee Child
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: October 29
Author
Film Actor
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Coventry
England
UK
Jim Grant
James D. Jim Grant
Hundred
Feet
Wish
Making
Handgun
Two
Handguns
Thing
Crossing
Crossings
Fingers
More quotes by Lee Child
My mother still calls me Jim and that is about it. Everyone else calls me Lee. My wife calls me whatever.
Lee Child
The British regulatory system was revised, so that bigger profits were encouraged, which removed the option of big spending on programming. Quality just fell off a cliff, and all the old hands either left or were fired for being too expensive.
Lee Child
I felt alienated by the experience and decided to stay away from corporate employment.
Lee Child
No, I'm a man with a rule. People leave me alone, I leave them alone. If they don't, I don't.
Lee Child
I think my books come out very visual, which is an obvious consequence.
Lee Child
Hope for the best, plan for the worst.
Lee Child
The way to write a thriller is to ask a question at the beginning, and answer it at the end.
Lee Child
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.
Lee Child
I love Italian food but that's too generic a term for what's available now: you have to narrow it down to Tuscan, Sicilian, and so on.
Lee Child
I've discovered writers by reading books left in airplane seats and weird hotels.
Lee Child
Lone women shouldn't stop in the middle of nowhere for giant unkempt strangers with duct tape on their faces.
Lee Child
Don't get it right - get it WRITTEN!
Lee Child
I had a teacher once, grade school somewhere. Philippines, I think, because she always wore a big white hat. So it was somewhere hot. I was always twice the size of the other kids, and she used to say to me: count to ten before you get mad, Reacher. And I've counted way past ten on this one. Way past.
Lee Child
I just felt from personal observation that there is nothing more dislocated or alienated than a lifelong military person trying to cope in civilian life. It's like two completely separate planets.
Lee Child
LA has a fantastic car scene and because the climate is so gentle, cars can last forever.
Lee Child
I have a kind of old-fashioned, artisan approach.
Lee Child
Printing currency for foreigners to buy is the best racket a government can get into.
Lee Child
I went to college. West Point is technically a college.
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, and partly unsympathetic, which wasn't easy.
Lee Child
You do not mess with the special investigators.
Lee Child
