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Hit them fast, hit them hard, and hit them a lot.

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
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All of us write wish fulfillment.
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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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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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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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I'm not afraid of death. Death's afraid of me.
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Hope for the best, plan for the worst.
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It gives me some kind of chance to survive the night. How are those better odds? If you come back with me, you're guaranteed to survive the night. No, Reacher said. If I come back with you, I'm guaranteed to die of shame.
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It's always sad if anybody you know has a personal problem.
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A calm environment is for after I finish work.
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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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The most sustained feat of imagination in mystery fiction today.
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Printing currency for foreigners to buy is the best racket a government can get into.
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I was fired from my television job, simple as that. Well, downsized, really, a classic 1990s situation.
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I think my books come out very visual, which is an obvious consequence.
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I know I'm smarter than an armadillo
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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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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.
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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.
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I was in television drama, which is a first cousin to the movies, and I trust myself to make the right decisions.
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