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Don't get it right - get it WRITTEN!

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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 just felt from personal observation that there is nothing more dislocated or alienated than a lifelong military person trying to cope in civilian life. It's like two completely separate planets.
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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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The most sustained feat of imagination in mystery fiction today.
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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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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 grew up in Birmingham, where they made useful things and made them well.
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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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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 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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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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For men, as they get bogged down with responsibilities, commitments, bureaucracy, it is a fantasy just to think of shedding everything literally, walking away with nothing at all, and just hitting the road.
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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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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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People who wear glasses, without them they always look unfocused, vulnerable. Out in the open. A layer removed.
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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 have three desks. One empty for paperwork, one for the internet and email, and one for the writing computer.
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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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Never forget a Favor, Never forgive a Slight!
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I'd been a thriller reader all my life.
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