"Lee Child, the man behind the Jack Reacher series, a series that sold more than 200 million books, the bestselling series of all time on Amazon in the UK. Yeah, more than Harry Potter, which is crazy...."

"...where I want to start the interview is creating a sense of place. Like obviously you're English, you were in England when you got fired and then you're like, 'Hey, let's go base a story in America...."

"...He wanted a gigantic geography to make the notion of a mysterious stranger plausible, which isn't the case in densely populated Britain. He draws on his experiences from numerous visits to the US, ..."

"...so I guess so they can check with police departments here and there that you're not some kind of murderer or something. And so I had to go back through all my old passports. And in those 24 years, ..."

"...I think it does. Yeah. You know, is it is it mostly an indoor story? Is it an outdoor story with with wandering? Is it uh just the flavor of it? I'm absolutely not a planner and I never have a prec..."

"...As you say, an inspiring story simply doesn't need to be riveting or filled with action from the first line. He uses this insight to create a powerful hook in his own writing, while avoiding common..."

"...In his opinion, series characters offer familiarity and comfort to readers, which can drive engagement and expectation around new releases."

"...you have got to have a certain discipline and structure to you to do that. So it's totally convenient to pick start first of September deliver sometime in March or April that is the way to do it."

"...I'm going to do whatever the hell I want. And I don't care what the result will be. My my target is to have more fun in 60 years than the rest of them would have in 100."

"...It was that if I'm doing something, I want people to enjoy it. And if you want people to enjoy it, you may as well have the maximum number of people enjoy it."

"...And you know, one of the most heartfelt compliments that you get, I've had dozens, hundreds of people say to me, 'Oh, I loved your book. I finished it.' It is such an achievement for some, you know..."

"...If you imply a question, doesn't matter what it is, people will stick around to find out the answer."

"...I want to feel that power when I'm writing it as well as reading it."

"...It's absolutely full of placeholders, you know, um all this kind of stuff. It's people jump from one subject to another. There are long gaps. It's utterly utterly unlike anything you will ever see ..."

"...You you don't start when the earth cooled. You know, that is what a lot of a lot of beginning writers get wrong."

"...There have been a couple of people that have started fresh in their in their 20s, early or mid20s that have made a success, but it's very much the exception."

"minority. Um, and even though you might be inventing an entirely new genre because an old guy like me, there's all kinds of stuff, you know, vampire fiction, this, that, the other that I have just no ..."

">> That is very well put and very well diagnosed. And that is exactly what happens that you I mean for instance I remember that the first Jackarich movie with with Tom Cruz directed by Chris McQuary. ..."

">> Violence, making it feel real, the purpose of it. What matters with violence? Uh, I think making it feel real is again it's a bit of an illusion, a bit like dialogue in as much as most violence in ..."

"so that the real world that they're committed to that they feel like they they need to have and support in in a good solid liberal way. And I don't mean liberal uh politically necess. >> Yeah. I just ..."

">> Clothing clothing is your writing. How how does clothing inform character? I think it is a symbol, you know, it's a very quick way of of describing a type of person um that you we all have a kind o..."

">> When you say not teachable, does that also mean not learnable? or can something be yes, you can learn how to do it, but that doesn't mean that it can be taught. >> I I think you absolutely can lear..."

">> Last question. You're English. Why has so much good writing come from Scotland, from England, from Ireland? What is it about this part of the world? >> I think uh I think it's a different answers f..."

">> You know, there reminds me of a bunch of Irish friends. Bunch of Irish friends. I was trying to think about how are they different from my American friends. And the way that they're the same is tha..."