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

Lee Child

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Lee Child
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: October 29
Author
Film Actor
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Coventry
England
UK
Jim Grant
James D. Jim Grant
Writing
Really
Surprise
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Don't get it right - get it WRITTEN!
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My mother still calls me Jim and that is about it. Everyone else calls me Lee. My wife calls me whatever.
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