Lee Child Quotes

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• Hope for the best, plan for the worst.

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  Hoping For The Best, Worst, Ultimatum

  Lee Child (2014). “Personal (with bonus short story Not a Drill): A Jack Reacher Novel”, p.179, Delacorte Press

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• Imagine the uproar if the Federal government tried to make everyone wear a radio transmitter around their neck so we can keep track of their movements. But people happily carry their cell phones in their purses and pockets.

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  Phones, Government, Cells

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• Don't be sad that roses have thorns. Be glad that thorns have Roses. Today's the day I worried about yesterday and it didn't happen.

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  Yesterday, Rose, Thorns

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• The way to write a thriller is to ask a question at the beginning, and answer it at the end.

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  Writing, Answers, Way

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• Spread love and understanding,” Reacher said. “Use force if necessary.

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  Understanding, Use, Force

  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.1690, Delacorte Press

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• A person less fortunate than yourself deserves the best you can give. Because of duty, and honor, and service. You understand those words? You should do your job right, and you should do it well, simply because you can, without looking for notice or reward.

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  Jobs, Giving, Honor

  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.1381, Delacorte Press

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• Don't get it right - get it WRITTEN!

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  Written

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• Some old guy once said that the meaning of life is that it ends.

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  Guy, Meaning Of Life, Life Is

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• Evaluate. Long experience had taught me to evaluate and assess. When the unexpected gets dumped on you, don’t waste time. Don’t figure out how or why it happened. Don’t recriminate. Don’t figure out whose fault it is. Don’t work out how to avoid the same mistake next time. All of that you do later. If you survive.

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  Mistake, Work Out, Long

  FaceBook post by Lee Child from Aug 11, 2015

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• Writing is showbusiness for shy people. That's how I see it.

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  Writing, People, Shy

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• You see something scary, you should stand up and step toward it, not away from it. Instinctively, reflexively, in a raging fury.

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  Fear, Scary, Steps

  Lee Child (2001). “Echo Burning: A Jack Reacher Novel”, p.107, Penguin

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• Sometimes if you want to know for sure whether the stove is hot, the only way to find out is to touch it.

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  Hot, Want, Way

  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.615, Delacorte Press

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• No, I'm a man with a rule. People leave me alone, I leave them alone. If they don't, I don't.

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  Men, People, Leave Me Alone

  Lee Child (2013). “The Essential Jack Reacher 11-Book Bundle: Persuader, The Enemy, One Shot, The Hard Way, Bad Luck and Trouble, Nothing to Lose, Gone Tomorrow, 61 Hours, Worth Dying For, The Affair, A Wanted Man”, p.1739, Delacorte Press

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• I don't care about the little guy. I just hate the big guy. I hate big smug people who think they can get away with things.

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  Hate, Thinking, People

  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.236, Delacorte Press

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• I'm a rich man. To have everything you need is the definition of affluence.

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  Men, Needs, Definitions

  Lee Child (2013). “The Essential Jack Reacher 11-Book Bundle: Persuader, The Enemy, One Shot, The Hard Way, Bad Luck and Trouble, Nothing to Lose, Gone Tomorrow, 61 Hours, Worth Dying For, The Affair, A Wanted Man”, p.2304, Delacorte Press

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• I'm twenty-nine, yes really, I'm from Aspen, Colorado, I'm six feet one, yes really, I've been at Quantico two years, yes I date guys, no I dress like this just because I like it, no I'm not married, no I don't currently have a boyfriend, and no I don't want to have dinner with you tonight.

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  Years, Two, Feet

  Lee Child (2008). “The Visitor: (Jack Reacher 4)”, p.125, Random House

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• I don't want to put the world to rights... I just don't like people who put the world to wrongs.

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  Rights, People, World

  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.244, Delacorte Press

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• It's a kind of zen question: if you write a book and no one reads it, is it really a book?

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  Book, Writing, Kind

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• I'm not afraid of death. Death's afraid of me.

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  Not Afraid, Not Afraid Of Death, Afraid Of Death

  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.194, Delacorte Press

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• I always wanted to be in the world of entertainment. I just love the idea of an audience being happy with what I am doing. Writing is showbusiness for shy people. That's how I see it.

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  Writing, Ideas, People

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• Printing currency for foreigners to buy is the best racket a government can get into.

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  Government, Printing, Currency

  Lee Child (2006). “Killing Floor: A Jack Reacher Novel”, p.285, Penguin

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• Never forget a Favor, Never forgive a Slight!

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  Forgiving, Favors, Never Forget

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• I have to warn you. I promised my mother, a long time ago. She said I had to give folks a chance to walk away.

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  Mother, Long, Giving

  "Nothing to Lose". Book by Lee Child, March 24, 2008.

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• 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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  Jobs, Reading, Writing

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• Many years from now when your children ask what New York City was like just after 9/11, this will be the book you give them in response. It's an exquisite novel full of heart, soul, passion and intelligence, and it's the one this great New York author was born to write.

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  New York, Children, Book

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