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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
Imagination
Today
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Feats
Sustained
Mystery
Fiction

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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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No, I'm a man with a rule. People leave me alone, I leave them alone. If they don't, I don't.
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The key to thrillers is vicarious pleasure.
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You do not mess with the special investigators.
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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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It gives me some kind of chance to survive the night. How are those better odds? If you come back with me, you're guaranteed to survive the night. No, Reacher said. If I come back with you, I'm guaranteed to die of shame.
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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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Some old guy once said that the meaning of life is that it ends.
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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 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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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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Never forget a Favor, Never forgive a Slight!
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I'm not a vagrant... I'm a hobo. Big difference.
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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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Practically any Western has a homesteader in trouble, and a mysterious rider shows up off the range, solves the problem over two or three days, and then rides off into the sunset.
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I think my books come out very visual, which is an obvious consequence.
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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 calm environment is for after I finish work.
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Hit them fast, hit them hard, and hit them a lot.
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LA has a fantastic car scene and because the climate is so gentle, cars can last forever.
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