top of page
Quote_1.png
Lee Child

"I think my books come out very visual, which is an obvious consequence."

Standard 
 Customized
"I think my books come out very visual, which is an obvious consequence."

More 

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"Thanks to bad graphic design, some readers love only the electronic version of some books."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"It was also a room full of books and made of books. There was no actual furniture; this is to say, the desk and chairs were shaped out of books. It looked as though many of them were frequently referred to, because they lay open with other books used as bookmarks."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"As for collaboration - I have done a lot, 26 books, and found publishers increasingly resistive to them. It's not that the books are bad; editors won't even read them."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here."

Author Name

Personal Development

More 

Quote_1.png
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. There are dozens of such clashes in America."

Identity

Quote_1.png
Lee Child
"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.'"

Writing

Quote_1.png
Lee Child
"What do I miss about the UK? Sadly, almost nothing. Maybe the midnight sun, in June in the north. That's all."

Nostalgia

Quote_1.png
Lee Child
"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."

Work

Quote_1.png
Lee Child
"I was fired from my television job, simple as that. Well, downsized, really, a classic 1990s situation."

Job

Quote_1.png
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."

Truth

Quote_1.png
Lee Child
"I had been coming to America very frequently for many, many years, so I had plenty of exposure - and maybe the best kind of exposure, because I think first impressions are very important. Maybe I notice stuff that is just subliminal to people who live here all the time."

Time

Quote_1.png
Lee Child
"I had a brief theater background and loved the backstage world there's more backstage work in television, so I saw a job advertised and applied, and got it. That was back in 1977, when getting jobs was easy."

Work

Quote_1.png
Lee Child
"I think my books come out very visual, which is an obvious consequence."

Books

Quote_1.png
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."

Quality

bottom of page