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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.
Lee Child
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Writer
Hot
Want
Way
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Lone women shouldn't stop in the middle of nowhere for giant unkempt strangers with duct tape on their faces.
Lee Child
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Writer
Giants
Middle Of Nowhere
Tape
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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.
Lee Child
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Writer
June
Midnight
Missing
Sun
Almost
Almost Nothing
Miss
Maybe
North
Sadly
Uk
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I have to warn you. I promised my mother, a long time ago. She said I had to give folks a chance to walk away.
Lee Child
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Writer
Giving
Long
Mother
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I have three desks. One empty for paperwork, one for the internet and email, and one for the writing computer.
Lee Child
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Writer
Computer
Email
Empty
Paperwork
Three
Writing
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People who wear glasses, without them they always look unfocused, vulnerable. Out in the open. A layer removed.
Lee Child
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Writer
Glasses
Looks
People
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Reacher said, "So here's the thing Brett. Either you take your hand off my chest, or I'll take it off your wrist.
Lee Child
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Writer
Hands
Said
Wrists
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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.
Lee Child
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Writer
Trust
Cousin
Decision
Drama
Television
Decisions
Right Decisions
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British crime stories tend to be very internal, psychological, claustrophobic, very limited in terms of geography.
Lee Child
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Writer
British
Crime
Geography
Psychological
Stories
Claustrophobic
Internal
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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.
Lee Child
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Writer
Hate
People
Thinking
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You see something scary, you should stand up and step toward it, not away from it. Instinctively, reflexively, in a raging fury.
Lee Child
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Writer
Fear
Scary
Steps
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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.
Lee Child
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Writer
Rose
Thorns
Yesterday
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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.
Lee Child
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Writer
Available
Generic
Italian
Italian Food
Sicilian
Term
Love Food Italian Food
Narrow
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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.
Lee Child
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Writer
Despair
Needs
Towns
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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.
Lee Child
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Writer
Said
Saying Nothing
Talking
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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.
Lee Child
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Writer
Pivotal
Surprise
Somewhere
Trick
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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.
Lee Child
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Writer
Facts
Stories
Surprise
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We know we need civilization and laws and procedures, but isn't it frustrating? Wouldn't it be great if we could just do what we needed to do?
Lee Child
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Writer
Civilization
Frustrating
Procedures
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Everything you could want - action, suspense, character and setting, all floating on the easy lyricism of a fine writer at the top of his game.
Lee Child
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Writer
Character
Floating
Games
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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.
Lee Child
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Writer
Jobs
Publishers
Reading
Writing
Readers
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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.
Lee Child
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Writer
Gourmet
Guy
Looks
Good Food Restaurant
Heading
Stops
Moment
Rather
Restaurant
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It's a tough case and the first time Reacher needs to recruit somebody to help him out. He uses a woman he knew in the army she's a fascinating character.
Lee Child
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Writer
Army
Fascinating
First Time
Recruit
Uses
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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.
Lee Child
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Writer
Book
Every Second
Facts
Needs
Praise
Recognition
Validation
Books
Gets
Second
Sold
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We would all love to walk up to someone and shoot them in the head, there's no doubt about that. We're too civilised to admit it, but we're happy to read about it.
Lee Child
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Writer
Civilised
Doubt
No Doubt
Admit
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The third guy was different. He was what you got when you ate squirrels for four generations. Smarter than a rat and tougher than a goat, and jumpier than either one.
Lee Child
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Writer
Generations
Guy
Squirrels
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I'm opposed to censorship of any kind, especially by government. But it's plain common sense that producers should target their product with some kind of sensitivity.
Lee Child
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Writer
Government
Censorship
Common Sense
Producers
Sensitivity
Target
Opposed
Plain
Product
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She's a reflection of my fascination with the diversity of America she's totally normal in New York, but a freak in Texas. There are dozens of such clashes in America.
Lee Child
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Writer
New York
Fascination
Freak
Normal
Reflection
Texas
Totally
Dozens
York
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You know, women are as promiscuous as men and yet, of course, people are inhibited from having an affair or a relationship because the real-world consequences are a drag.
Lee Child
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Writer
Affair
Drag
Promiscuous
Men Women Relationship
Women Are
Consequences
Relationship Women Men
Inhibited
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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.
Lee Child
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Writer
Easy
Lying
Sympathetic
Telling The Truth
Unsure
Meant
Genuinely
Partly
Readers
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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.
Lee Child
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Writer
Mysterious
Range
Sunset
Three
Two
Western
Practically
Rider
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I always wanted to be in the world of entertainment. I just love the idea of an audience being happy with what I am doing. Writing is showbusiness for shy people. That's how I see it.
Lee Child
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Writer
Ideas
People
Writing
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In principle if I could not have a home I wouldn't. But not having a home would be too difficult procedurally, going from hotel to hotel, the gap of three hours where you're hungry and tired.
Lee Child
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Writer
Hotel
Hungry
If I Could
Tired
Gap
Principle
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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.
Lee Child
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Writer
Felt
Lifelong
Military
Observation
Planets
Trying
Two
Alienated
Civilian
Cope
Personal
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Male authors always take care to make their heroes at least one inch taller than they are, and considerably more muscular. Just as female authors give their heroines better hair and slimmer thighs.
Lee Child
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Writer
Care
Female
Heroines
Take Care
Thighs
Heroes
Male
At Least One
Authors
Considerably
Inch
Least
Muscular
Taller
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I write in the afternoon, from about 12 until 6 or 7. I use an upstairs room as my office. Once I get going I keep at it, and it usually takes about six months from the first blank screen until 'The End.
Lee Child
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Writer
Office
Six Months
Writing
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I write in the afternoon, from about 12 until 6 or 7. I use an upstairs room as my office. Once I get going I keep at it, and it usually takes about six months from the first blank screen until 'The End.'
Lee Child
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Writer
Afternoon
Blank
Months
Office
Six
Upstairs
Room
Screen
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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.
Lee Child
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Writer
Communication
Built
Email
Fun
Impact
Now And Then
Website
Checking
Readers
Revolutionized
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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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Writer
Bureaucracy
Commitment
Fantasy
Hitting
Responsibility
Thinking
Bogged
Commitments
Literally
Responsibilities
Shedding
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Slippery slope. I carry a spare shirt, pretty soon I'm carrying spare pants. Then I'd need a suitcase. Next thing I know, I've got a house and a car and a savings plan and I'm filling out all kinds of forms.
Lee Child
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Writer
Car
House
Needs
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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.
Lee Child
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Writer
Jobs
Television
Theater
World
Work World More
Applied
Background
Brief
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To fill a small bag means selecting,and choosing, and evaluating. There's no logicial end to that process. Pretty soon I would have a big bag, and then two or three. A month later I'd be like the rest of you.
Lee Child
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Writer
Mean
Three
Two
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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.
Lee Child
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Writer
America
Cities
Falling In Love
Fascinating
Visiting
Love Time City
Capital
Each Time
Endlessly
La
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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.
Lee Child
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Writer
Immature
Littles
Machines
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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.
Lee Child
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Writer
Government
Cells
Phones
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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.
Lee Child
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Writer
Giving
Night
Odds
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Intensely vivid characters, terrible crimes, and a brutal deep-frozen landscape all prove beyond a reasonable doubt that cold nurtures good and evil as readily as heat ... and that Giles Blunt is a really tremendous crime novelist.
Lee Child
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Writer
Character
Doubt
Evil
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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.
Lee Child
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Writer
Jobs
Book
Desperation
Driven
Entertainment
Logical
Real
Inside
Novelist
Worked
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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.
Lee Child
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Writer
Quality
Bigger
British
Cliffs
Expensive
Hands
Programming
Spending
Cliff
Option
Encouraged
Fired
Profits
Regulatory
Revised
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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.
Lee Child
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Writer
Jobs
Giving
Honor
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They found out about him in July and stayed angry all through August. They tried to kill him in September. It was way too soon. They weren't ready. The attempt was a failure. It could have been a disaster, but it was actually a miracle. Because nobody noticed.
Lee Child
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Writer
August
July
Miracle
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