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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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Hope for the best, plan for the worst.
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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 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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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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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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Don't get it right - get it WRITTEN!
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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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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 was fired from my television job, simple as that. Well, downsized, really, a classic 1990s situation.
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I grew up in Birmingham, where they made useful things and made them well.
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Hit them fast, hit them hard, and hit them a lot.
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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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A calm environment is for after I finish work.
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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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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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