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• The third guy was different. He was what you got when you ate squirrels for four generations. Smarter than a rat and tougher than a goat, and jumpier than either one.

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  Squirrels, Guy, Generations

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

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  Stories, Psychological, Crime

  "Sacked at 40 and on the scrapheap. Now Brummie tops US book charts" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2008.

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• The key to thrillers is vicarious pleasure.

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  Keys, Pleasure, Vicarious

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• I said nothing. I’m good at saying nothing. I don’t like talking. I could go the rest of my life without saying another word, if I had to.

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  Talking, Saying Nothing, Said

  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.649, Delacorte Press

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• The first day of the rest of my life.

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  Good Morning, Beauty, Live Life

  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.633, Delacorte Press

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• Hit them fast, hit them hard, and hit them a lot.

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  Hard

  Lee Child (2008). “Without Fail: A Jack Reacher Novel”, p.20, Penguin

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• People spend thousands of dollars on stereos. Sometimes tens of thousands. There is a specialist industry right here in the States which builds stereo gear to a standard you wouldn't believe. Tubed amplifiers which cost more than a house. Speakers taller than me. Cables thicker than a garden hose. Some army guys had that stuff. I'd heard it on bases around the world. Wonderful. But they were wasting their money. Because the best stereo in the world is free. Inside your head. It sounds as good as you want it to. As loud as you want it to be.

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  Believe, Army, Garden

  Lee Child (2006). “Killing Floor: A Jack Reacher Novel”, p.48, Penguin

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• People, Reacher was certain about. Dogs were different. People had freedom of choice. If a man or a woman ran snarling toward him, they did so because they chose to. They were asking for whatever they got. His response was their problem. But dogs were different. No free will. Easily misled. It raised an ethical problem. Shooting a dog because it had been induced to do something unwise was not the sort of thing Reacher wanted to do.

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  Dog, Men, People

  Lee Child (2006). “Die Trying: A Jack Reacher Novel”, p.215, Penguin

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• The most sustained feat of imagination in mystery fiction today.

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  Imagination, Fiction, Today

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• I need a stimulating environment to write because my books are driven at 100 miles per hour at a time.

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  Book, Writing, Needs

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• 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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  Commitment, Responsibility, Thinking

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• 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.

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  Stories, Facts, Surprise

  Interview with Claire E. White for "The Internet Writing Journal", www.writerswrite.com. August 2001.

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• 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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  Military, Two, Trying

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• Intensely vivid characters, terrible crimes, and a brutal deep-frozen landscape all prove beyond a reasonable doubt that cold nurtures good and evil as readily as heat ... and that Giles Blunt is a really tremendous crime novelist.

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  Character, Evil, Doubt

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• Plan A is to hitch a ride out of here. But if they want a war, then plan B is to win it.

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  War, Winning, Want

  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.348, Delacorte Press

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• A handgun at two hundred feet is the same thing as crossing your fingers and making a wish.

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  Two, Feet, Wish

  Lee Child (2014). “The Essential Jack Reacher 12-Book Bundle”, p.3722, Delacorte Press

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• I'd never believed in luck. Never had any cause to. Never relied on it, because I never could.

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  Luck, Causes

  Lee Child (2010). “Lee Child's Jack Reacher”, p.537, Penguin

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• A calm environment is for after I finish work.

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  Calm, Environment

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• The best fights are the ones you don't have", a wise man once said to me.

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  Wise, Fighting, Men

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• 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.

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  Sunset, Two, Three

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• I know I'm smarter than an armadillo

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  Armadillos, Knows, Smarter

  Lee Child (2010). “Lee Child's Jack Reacher”, p.2263, Penguin

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

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  Book, Thinking, Obvious

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• They found out about him in July and stayed angry all through August. They tried to kill him in September. It was way too soon. They weren't ready. The attempt was a failure. It could have been a disaster, but it was actually a miracle. Because nobody noticed.

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  July, August, Miracle

  Lee Child (2001). “Echo Burning: A Jack Reacher Novel”, p.292, Penguin

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• I have three desks. One empty for paperwork, one for the internet and email, and one for the writing computer.

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  Writing, Email, Three

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