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

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Lee Child
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: October 29
Author
Film Actor
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Coventry
England
UK
Jim Grant
James D. Jim Grant
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The most sustained feat of imagination in mystery fiction today.
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Reacher said, So here's the thing Brett. Either you take your hand off my chest, or I'll take it off your wrist.
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Some old guy once said that the meaning of life is that it ends.
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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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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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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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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 don't know what the secret is when I am writing it - it really is a surprise to me.
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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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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'm not a vagrant... I'm a hobo. Big difference.
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No, I'm a man with a rule. People leave me alone, I leave them alone. If they don't, I don't.
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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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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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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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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 have a kind of old-fashioned, artisan approach.
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I was in the machine. My whole life. Then the machine coughed and spat me out. So I thought, OK, if I'm out, I'm out. All the way out. I was a little angry and it was probably an immature reaction. But I got used to it.
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I'm not really into gourmet food I'm the kind of guy who just stops by a place that looks good rather than heading for the restaurant of the moment.
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