Lee Child Quotes
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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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Now they broke my toothbrush, I don't own anything.
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The first day of the rest of my life.
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I do a little fact checking now and then. Other than that its impact is simply that email has revolutionized communication for me, and my website has built up a community of readers, which is a lot of fun.
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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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Evaluate. Long experience had taught me to evaluate and assess. When the unexpected gets dumped on you, don’t waste time. Don’t figure out how or why it happened. Don’t recriminate. Don’t figure out whose fault it is. Don’t work out how to avoid the same mistake next time. All of that you do later. If you survive.
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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 like food, like any other guy, but it is not the main thing in my life. I can do without it.
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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 love visiting LA. It's an endlessly fascinating city, and is, of course, America's entertainment capital. Each time I go, I fall in love with it all over again. That said, it's not the sort of place I'd want to live.
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I said nothing. I’m good at saying nothing. I don’t like talking. I could go the rest of my life without saying another word, if I had to.
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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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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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He picked up the wrench and broke the guy’s wrist with it, one, and then the other wrist, two, and turned back and did the same to the guy who had held the hammer, three, four. The two men were somebody’s weapons, consciously deployed, and no soldier left an enemy’s abandoned ordnance on the field in working order. The doctor’s wife was watching from the cabin door, all kinds of terror in her face. "What?" Reacher asked her.
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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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I had been coming to America very frequently for many, many years, so I had plenty of exposure - and maybe the best kind of exposure, because I think first impressions are very important. Maybe I notice stuff that is just subliminal to people who live here all the time.
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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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You do not mess with the special investigators.
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Sometimes if you want to know for sure whether the stove is hot, the only way to find out is to touch it.
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I think my books come out very visual, which is an obvious consequence.
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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 don't want to put the world to rights... I just don't like people who put the world to wrongs.
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It's always tense when you move a character from a book to the screen. Always tense.
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I need a stimulating environment to write because my books are driven at 100 miles per hour at a time.
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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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Writing is showbusiness for shy people. That's how I see it.
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Imagine the uproar if the Federal government tried to make everyone wear a radio transmitter around their neck so we can keep track of their movements. But people happily carry their cell phones in their purses and pockets.
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Some old guy once said that the meaning of life is that it ends.
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People who wear glasses, without them they always look unfocused, vulnerable. Out in the open. A layer removed.
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