Lee Child Quotes

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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…
• Writing is showbusiness for shy people. That's how I see it.
• I like food, like any other guy, but it is not the main thing in my life. I can do without it.
• I felt alienated by the experience and decided to stay away from corporate employment.
• I have three desks. One empty for paperwork, one for the internet and email, and one for the writing computer.
• A calm environment is for after I finish work.
• All of us write wish fulfillment.
• British crime stories tend to be very internal, psychological, claustrophobic, very limited in terms of geography.
• For me the end of a book is just as exciting as it is for a reader.
• I don't know what the secret is when I am writing it - it really is a surprise to me.
• I grew up in Birmingham, where they made useful things and made them well.
• I have a kind of old-fashioned, artisan approach.
• 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…
• I need a stimulating environment to write because my books are driven at 100 miles per hour at a time.
• I think my books come out very visual, which is an obvious consequence.
• I was fired from my television job, simple as that. Well, downsized, really, a classic 1990s situation.
• I was in television drama, which is a first cousin to the movies, and I trust myself to make the right decisions.
• I'd been a thriller reader all my life.
• 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…
• 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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