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

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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Thrills
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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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Lone women shouldn't stop in the middle of nowhere for giant unkempt strangers with duct tape on their faces.
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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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I've discovered writers by reading books left in airplane seats and weird hotels.
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You see something scary, you should stand up and step toward it, not away from it. Instinctively, reflexively, in a raging fury.
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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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All of us write wish fulfillment.
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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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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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You do not mess with the special investigators.
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I'm not a vagrant... I'm a hobo. Big difference.
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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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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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The best fights are the ones you don't have, a wise man once said to me.
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Printing currency for foreigners to buy is the best racket a government can get into.
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I'd been a thriller reader all my life.
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I went to college. West Point is technically a college.
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A calm environment is for after I finish work.
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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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