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Full of thrills and tension - but smart and human too.

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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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Human
Humans
Thrills
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Slippery slope. I carry a spare shirt, pretty soon I'm carrying spare pants. Then I'd need a suitcase. Next thing I know, I've got a house and a car and a savings plan and I'm filling out all kinds of forms.
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A person less fortunate than yourself deserves the best you can give. Because of duty, and honor, and service. You understand those words? You should do your job right, and you should do it well, simply because you can, without looking for notice or reward.
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I went to college. West Point is technically a college.
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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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You do not mess with the special investigators.
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It's always sad if anybody you know has a personal problem.
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I felt alienated by the experience and decided to stay away from corporate employment.
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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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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'd been a thriller reader all my life.
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The third guy was different. He was what you got when you ate squirrels for four generations. Smarter than a rat and tougher than a goat, and jumpier than either one.
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I've discovered writers by reading books left in airplane seats and weird hotels.
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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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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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The most sustained feat of imagination in mystery fiction today.
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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 have three desks. One empty for paperwork, one for the internet and email, and one for the writing computer.
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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 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.
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