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" L.A. has a fantastic car scene and because the climate is so gentle, cars can last forever. "
Lee Child
Car
Forever
Because
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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. "
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World
Real
" 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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Moment
Place
" The thriller is not a recent invention. It probably goes back to the dawn of storytelling. "
Lee Child
Back
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Dawn
" Writing is showbusiness for shy people. That's how I see it. "
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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
Know
Men
" I was fired from my television job, simple as that. Well, downsized, really, a classic 1990s situation. "
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Situation
Well
Job
" 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 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
Life
Trying
Personal
" 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 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
Fall
Time
Live
" There is nothing wrong with just telling the story. "
Lee Child
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Just
Nothing
" 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
" The key to thrillers is vicarious pleasure. "
Lee Child
Key
Thrillers
Pleasure
" 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 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
" 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
" All of us write wish fulfillment. "
Lee Child
Write
Us
Fulfillment
" I'd been a thriller reader all my life. "
Lee Child
Been
Reader
Life
" 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
" 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 have a kind of old-fashioned, artisan approach. "
Lee Child
Artisan
Kind
Approach
" What do I miss about the UK? Sadly, almost nothing. Maybe the midnight sun, in June in the north. That's all. "
Lee Child
Miss
Midnight
UK
" 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 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
Me
Communication
Community
" 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
America
Diversity
New York
" A calm environment is for after I finish work. "
Lee Child
Finish
Environment
Calm
" 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
" 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
Telling
She
Truth
" My mother still calls me Jim and that is about it. Everyone else calls me Lee. My wife calls me whatever. "
Lee Child
Me
Whatever
Wife
" British crime stories tend to be very internal, psychological, claustrophobic, very limited in terms of geography. "
Lee Child
British
Crime
Geography