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" I've discovered writers by reading books left in airplane seats and weird hotels. "
Lee Child
Left
Airplane
Books
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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. "
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New York
" Writing is showbusiness for shy people. That's how I see it. "
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" I think my books come out very visual, which is an obvious consequence. "
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Come
Books
Obvious
" 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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" 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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People
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Men
" The thriller is not a recent invention. It probably goes back to the dawn of storytelling. "
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Back
Storytelling
Dawn
" I was fired from my television job, simple as that. Well, downsized, really, a classic 1990s situation. "
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Situation
Well
Job
" A calm environment is for after I finish work. "
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Finish
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Calm
" British crime stories tend to be very internal, psychological, claustrophobic, very limited in terms of geography. "
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British
Crime
Geography
" The way to write a thriller is to ask a question at the beginning, and answer it at the end. "
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Way
Beginning
End
" There is nothing wrong with just telling the story. "
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Story
Just
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" Yeah, I am pretty sure of myself. "
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Sure
Pretty
Myself
" 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
Tough
Character
Help
" 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
Office
Write
First
" 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. "
Lee Child
Live
Best
America
" 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
Take Care
Better
Care
" Most actors are small, anyway - at least compared to me. "
Lee Child
Most
Me
Least
" 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
" 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
" I have a kind of old-fashioned, artisan approach. "
Lee Child
Artisan
Kind
Approach
" 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
Two
Trouble
Up
" 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
" I grew up in Birmingham, where they made useful things and made them well. "
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Where
Up
Well
" The key to thrillers is vicarious pleasure. "
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Key
Thrillers
Pleasure
" For me the end of a book is just as exciting as it is for a reader. "
Lee Child
Reader
Book
End
" You mustn't fall in love with your own hero. "
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Your
You
Own
" 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. "
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Men
Walking
Think
" 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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Writing
Idiot
Plan
" It's always tense when you move a character from a book to the screen. Always tense. "
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Always
You
Move
" 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