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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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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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I'm not a vagrant... I'm a hobo. Big difference.
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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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Some old guy once said that the meaning of life is that it ends.
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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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What do I miss about the UK? Sadly, almost nothing. Maybe the midnight sun, in June in the north. That's all.
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I know I'm smarter than an armadillo
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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 teacher once, grade school somewhere. Philippines, I think, because she always wore a big white hat. So it was somewhere hot. I was always twice the size of the other kids, and she used to say to me: count to ten before you get mad, Reacher. And I've counted way past ten on this one. Way past.
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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 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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People who wear glasses, without them they always look unfocused, vulnerable. Out in the open. A layer removed.
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That should be your town motto. It's all I ever hear. Like: New Hampshire, Live Free or Die. It should be: Despair, You Need To Leave Now.
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Don't get it right - get it WRITTEN!
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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 a kind of old-fashioned, artisan approach.
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Practically any Western has a homesteader in trouble, and a mysterious rider shows up off the range, solves the problem over two or three days, and then rides off into the sunset.
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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 way to write a thriller is to ask a question at the beginning, and answer it at the end.
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You do not mess with the special investigators.
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