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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.
Lee Child
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Lee Child
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: October 29
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Coventry
England
UK
Jim Grant
James D. Jim Grant
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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 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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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'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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The best fights are the ones you don't have, a wise man once said to me.
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I have a kind of old-fashioned, artisan approach.
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Don't be sad that roses have thorns. Be glad that thorns have Roses. Today's the day I worried about yesterday and it didn't happen.
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I don't care about the little guy. I just hate the big guy. I hate big smug people who think they can get away with things.
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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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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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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 went to college. West Point is technically a college.
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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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I was fired from my television job, simple as that. Well, downsized, really, a classic 1990s situation.
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I don't need validation, recognition or praise. What I need are facts and the facts are that one of my books gets sold, somewhere in the world, every second.
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I felt alienated by the experience and decided to stay away from corporate employment.
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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 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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Hope for the best, plan for the worst.
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Hit them fast, hit them hard, and hit them a lot.
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