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Lee Child Inspirational Quotes (64)

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I know I'm smarter than an armadillo
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The best fights are the ones you don't have, a wise man once said to me.
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I always wanted to be in the world of entertainment. I just love the idea of an audience being happy with what I am doing. Writing is showbusiness for shy people. That's how I see it.
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Lone women shouldn't stop in the middle of nowhere for giant unkempt strangers with duct tape on their faces.
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You see something scary, you should stand up and step toward it, not away from it. Instinctively, reflexively, in a raging fury.
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It's a kind of zen question: if you write a book and no one reads it, is it really a book?
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So, how to stay inside the world of entertainment without actually getting another job? I felt the only logical answer was to become a novelist. So I wrote the first book - driven by some very real feelings of desperation - and it worked.
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I have three desks. One empty for paperwork, one for the internet and email, and one for the writing computer.
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A handgun at two hundred feet is the same thing as crossing your fingers and making a wish.
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For men, as they get bogged down with responsibilities, commitments, bureaucracy, it is a fantasy just to think of shedding everything literally, walking away with nothing at all, and just hitting the road.
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Hope for the best, plan for the worst.
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The key to thrillers is vicarious pleasure.
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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.
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I like food, like any other guy, but it is not the main thing in my life. I can do without it.
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I'd been a thriller reader all my life.
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It's always sad if anybody you know has a personal problem.
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Imagine the uproar if the Federal government tried to make everyone wear a radio transmitter around their neck so we can keep track of their movements. But people happily carry their cell phones in their purses and pockets.
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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.
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People who wear glasses, without them they always look unfocused, vulnerable. Out in the open. A layer removed.
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So long as readers keep reading and my publishers keep publishing, I plan to keep on writing. I'd have to be an idiot to be burnt-out in this job.
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Don't get it right - get it WRITTEN!
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The way to write a thriller is to ask a question at the beginning, and answer it at the end.
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I felt alienated by the experience and decided to stay away from corporate employment.
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I'm not afraid of death. Death's afraid of me.
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