Lee Child Quotes - Page 3

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• I was in the machine. My whole life. Then the machine coughed and spat me out. So I thought, OK, if I'm out, I'm out. All the way out. I was a little angry and it was probably an immature reaction. But I got used to it.

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  Immature, Machines, Littles

  Lee Child (2015). “The Essential Jack Reacher, Volume 1, 7-Book Bundle: Persuader, The Enemy, One Shot, The Hard Way, Bad Luck and Trouble, Nothing to Lose, Gone Tomorrow”, p.539, Delacorte Press

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• Now they broke my toothbrush, I don't own anything.

  Lee Child

  Broke, Toothbrushes

  Lee Child (2007). “Bad Luck and Trouble: A Jack Reacher Novel”, Random House LLC

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• 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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  Mother, Wife, Call Me

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

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  Cousin, Drama, Decision

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• Everything you could want - action, suspense, character and setting, all floating on the easy lyricism of a fine writer at the top of his game.

  Lee Child

  Character, Games, Floating

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• Lone women shouldn't stop in the middle of nowhere for giant unkempt strangers with duct tape on their faces.

  Lee Child

  Giants, Tape, Middle Of Nowhere

  Lee Child (2015). “The Essential Jack Reacher, Volume 2, 6-Book Bundle: 61 Hours, Worth Dying For, The Affair, A Wanted Man, Never Go Back, Personal”, p.599, Delacorte Press

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• People who wear glasses, without them they always look unfocused, vulnerable. Out in the open. A layer removed.

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  Glasses, People, Looks

  Lee Child (2009). “Killing Floor: (Jack Reacher 1)”, p.96, Random House

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• This was like July 13th, 1943, the pivotal day of the Battle of the Kursk. We were like Alexander Vasilevsky, the Soviet general. If we attacked now, this minute, we had to keep on and on attacking until the enemy was run off his feet and the war was won. If we bogged down or paused for breath even for a second, we would be overrun again.

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  Running, War, July

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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.

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  Government, Common Sense, Target

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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, Reflection, Texas

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• He had fallen out of the ugly tree, and hit every branch.

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  Redneck, Tree, Ugly

  Lee Child (2015). “The Essential Jack Reacher, Volume 2, 6-Book Bundle: 61 Hours, Worth Dying For, The Affair, A Wanted Man, Never Go Back, Personal”, p.713, Delacorte Press

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• 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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  Guy, Gourmet, Looks

  "Lee Child's Los Angeles". Interview with York Membery, www.telegraph.co.uk. November 1, 2010.

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• What do I miss about the UK? Sadly, almost nothing. Maybe the midnight sun, in June in the north. That's all.

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  June, Missing, Midnight

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• The thriller is not a recent invention. It probably goes back to the dawn of storytelling.

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  Dawn, Storytelling, Invention

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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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  Thinking, Years, America

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• To fill a small bag means selecting,and choosing, and evaluating. There's no logicial end to that process. Pretty soon I would have a big bag, and then two or three. A month later I'd be like the rest of you.

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  Mean, Two, Three

  Lee Child (2015). “The Essential Jack Reacher, Volume 2, 6-Book Bundle: 61 Hours, Worth Dying For, The Affair, A Wanted Man, Never Go Back, Personal”, p.101, Delacorte Press

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• You do not mess with the special investigators.

  Lee Child

  Special, Mess, Investigators

  Lee Child (2015). “The Essential Jack Reacher, Volume 1, 7-Book Bundle: Persuader, The Enemy, One Shot, The Hard Way, Bad Luck and Trouble, Nothing to Lose, Gone Tomorrow”, p.992, Delacorte Press

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• I felt alienated by the experience and decided to stay away from corporate employment.

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  Stay Strong, Employment, Corporate

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• 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.

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  Writing, Office, Six Months

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• Anecdotally his fitness reports rated him well above average in the classroom, excellent in the field, fluently bilingual in English and French, passable in Spanish, outstanding on all man-portable weaponry, and beyond outstanding at hand-to-hand combat. Susan knew what that last rating meant. Like having a running chainsaw thrown at you

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  Running, Men, Average

  Lee Child (2015). “The Essential Jack Reacher, Volume 2, 6-Book Bundle: 61 Hours, Worth Dying For, The Affair, A Wanted Man, Never Go Back, Personal”, p.175, Delacorte Press

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• He looked at the pain and he set himself apart from it. He saw it, examined it, identified it, corralled it. He isolated it. He challenged it. You against me? Dream on, pal. He built borders for it. Then walls. He built walls and forced the pain behind them and then he moved the walls inward, compressing the pain, crushing it, boxing it in, limiting it, beating it.

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  Crush, Dream, Wall

  Lee Child (2015). “The Essential Jack Reacher, Volume 2, 6-Book Bundle: 61 Hours, Worth Dying For, The Affair, A Wanted Man, Never Go Back, Personal”, p.508, Delacorte Press

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• I'm not a vagrant... I'm a hobo. Big difference.

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  Differences, Vagrants, Hobos

  "Killing Floor". Book by Lee Child, March, 1997.

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• For me the end of a book is just as exciting as it is for a reader.

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  Book, Ends, Exciting

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• LA has a fantastic car scene and because the climate is so gentle, cars can last forever.

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  Car, Forever, Climate

  "Lee Child's Los Angeles". Interview with York Membery, www.telegraph.co.uk. November 1, 2010.

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• Full of thrills and tension - but smart and human too.

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  Smart, Tension, Humans

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