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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.
Lee Child
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Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: October 29
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All of us write wish fulfillment.
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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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It's always sad if anybody you know has a personal problem.
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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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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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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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The way to write a thriller is to ask a question at the beginning, and answer it at the end.
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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 went to college. West Point is technically a college.
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Hope for the best, plan for the worst.
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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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I think my books come out very visual, which is an obvious consequence.
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Don't get it right - get it WRITTEN!
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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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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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