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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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Care

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Lee Child

Write

Fulfillment

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think my books come out very visual, which is an obvious consequence. "

" 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

" I like food, like any other guy, but it is not the main thing in my life. I can do without it. "

" I was in television drama, which is a first cousin to the movies, and I trust myself to make the right decisions. "

" 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. "

" British crime stories tend to be very internal, psychological, claustrophobic, very limited in terms of geography. "

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" I grew up in Birmingham, where they made useful things and made them well. "

Lee Child

Where

Well

" 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. "