463 Quotes by 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.

This was like July 13th, 1943, the pivotal day of the Battle of the Kursk. We were like Alexander Vasilevsky, the Soviet general. If we attacked now, this minute, we had to keep on and on attacking until the enemy was run off his feet and the war was won. If we bogged down or paused for breath even for a second, we would be overrun again.

He had fallen out of the ugly tree, and hit every branch.

The best fights are the ones you don't have", a wise man once said to me.

You do not mess with the special investigators.

What do I miss about the UK? Sadly, almost nothing. Maybe the midnight sun, in June in the north. That's all.

I don't know what the secret is when I am writing it - it really is a surprise to me.

For me the end of a book is just as exciting as it is for a reader.

British crime stories tend to be very internal, psychological, claustrophobic, very limited in terms of geography.