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Lee Child

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All of us write wish fulfillment.


— Lee Child


#us #wish #write

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


#civilian #completely #cope #dislocated #felt

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


— Lee Child


#food #guy #i #i can #life

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


#down #food #generic #i #i love

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


— Lee Child


#desks #email #empty #i #internet

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


— Lee Child


#grew #i #made #them #things

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


— Lee Child


#decisions #drama #first #i #make

I don't need validation, recognition or praise. What I need are facts and the facts are that one of my books gets sold, somewhere in the world, every second.


— Lee Child


#every #every second #facts #gets #i

A calm environment is for after I finish work.


— Lee Child


#calm #environment #finish #i #work

I was fired from my television job, simple as that. Well, downsized, really, a classic 1990s situation.


— Lee Child


#fired #i #job #really #simple






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Grant has said that he chose the name Reacher for the central character in his novels because he is himself tall and in a supermarket (Asda in Kendal Cumbria when he was living in Kirkby Lonsdale) his wife Jane told him: "Hey if this writing thing doesn't pan out you could always be a reacher in a supermarket. Novels and awards


Other awards
2005 The Bob Kellogg Good Citizen Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Internet Writing Community
2013 Cartier Diamond Dagger lifetime achievement by the Crime Writers' Association


Short stories
"James Penney's New Identity" from Fresh Blood 3 (edited by Mike Ripley and Maxim Jakubowski) and from Thriller (US)
"The Snake Eater by the Numbers" from Like a Charm (edited by Karin Slaughter)
"Ten Keys" from The Cocaine Chronicles (edited by Jervey Tervalon and Gary Phillips)
"The Greatest Trick of All" from Greatest Hits (edited by Robert J Randisi)
"Guy Walks Into a Bar. R.

Jim Grant (born 29 October 1954) better known by his pen name Lee Child is a British thriller writer. Each of Child's novels follows the adventures of a former American military policeman Jack Reacher who wanders the United States.

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