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The most sustained feat of imagination in mystery fiction today.

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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Mystery
Fiction
Imagination
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All of us write wish fulfillment.
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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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You do not mess with the special investigators.
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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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I think my books come out very visual, which is an obvious consequence.
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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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Printing currency for foreigners to buy is the best racket a government can get into.
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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 felt alienated by the experience and decided to stay away from corporate employment.
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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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The best fights are the ones you don't have, a wise man once said to me.
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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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Some old guy once said that the meaning of life is that it ends.
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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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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 know I'm smarter than an armadillo
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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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I've discovered writers by reading books left in airplane seats and weird hotels.
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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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