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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
Common Sense
Government
Censorship
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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. "
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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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Best
America
" 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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Whatever
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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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Job
Back
" 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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Moment
Place
" 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. "
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Take Care
Better
Care
" You mustn't fall in love with your own hero. "
Lee Child
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You
Own
" Yeah, I am pretty sure of myself. "
Lee Child
Sure
Pretty
Myself
" 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
Praise
World
Recognition
" For me the end of a book is just as exciting as it is for a reader. "
Lee Child
Reader
Book
End
" It's always tense when you move a character from a book to the screen. Always tense. "
Lee Child
Always
You
Move
" 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
Hungry
You
Tired
" I was in television drama, which is a first cousin to the movies, and I trust myself to make the right decisions. "
Lee Child
Trust
Movies
Myself
" 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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Programming
Quality
System
" 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
You
Down
Love
" 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
Need
Civilization
Laws
" I like food, like any other guy, but it is not the main thing in my life. I can do without it. "
Lee Child
I Can
Without
Food
" 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
Love
Walk
Admit
" There is nothing wrong with just telling the story. "
Lee Child
Story
Just
Nothing
" 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
Writing
Idiot
Plan
" 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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Fall
Time
Live
" The thriller is not a recent invention. It probably goes back to the dawn of storytelling. "
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Back
Storytelling
Dawn
" It's always sad if anybody you know has a personal problem. "
Lee Child
Anybody
Always
Sad
" 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. "
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Job
World
Real
" I need a stimulating environment to write because my books are driven at 100 miles per hour at a time. "
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Need
Time
Environment
" All of us write wish fulfillment. "
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Write
Us
Fulfillment
" I have a kind of old-fashioned, artisan approach. "
Lee Child
Artisan
Kind
Approach
" I was fired from my television job, simple as that. Well, downsized, really, a classic 1990s situation. "
Lee Child
Situation
Well
Job
" 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
Work
Somewhere
Surprise
" A calm environment is for after I finish work. "
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Finish
Environment
Calm