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1. "I like food, like any other guy, but it is not the main thing in my life. I can do without it." ~ Lee Child
2. "I have three desks. One empty for paperwork, one for the internet and email, and one for the writing computer." ~ Lee Child
3. "Where are the deputies?''On their way up to the first-aid post.''What happened to them?''I did." ~ Lee Child
4. "Like when people say they slept like a baby. Do they mean they slept well? Or do they mean they woke up every ten minutes, screaming?" ~ Lee Child
5. "Nothing ever works like you predict it. All plans fall apart as soon as the first shot is fired." ~ Lee Child
6. "Like they were puppets, and the puppeteer had sneezed." ~ Lee Child
7. "The Reacher brothers' need for caffeine makes heroin addiction look like an amusing little take-it-or-leave-it sideline." ~ Lee Child
8. "If you can see a bandwagon, it's too late to get on." ~ Lee Child
9. "You see four guys bunched on a corner waiting for you, you either run like hell in the opposite direction without hesitation, or you keep on walking without slowing down or speeding up or breaking stride...Truth is, it's smarter to run. The best fight is the one you don't have. But I have never claimed to be smart. Just obstinate, and occasionally bad-tempered. Some guys kick cats. I keep walking. - Jack Reacher" ~ Lee Child
10. "Reacher said Nothing" ~ Lee Child
11. "Aim for the side of the skull, which is softer and displaces the brain more." ~ Lee Child
12. "We don't teach them to fight fair, and we don't start a fight." ~ Lee Child
13. "Dealing with morons … is like teaching Hindu to a beagle." ~ Lee Child
14. "The basis of any scam is telling people what they want to hear. If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is." ~ Lee Child
15. "He had no bag, which was strange. But overall it was vaguely reassuring to have such a man on board, especially after he had proved himself civilized and not in any way threatening. Threatening behavior from a man that size would have been unseemly. Good manners from a man that size were charming." ~ Lee Child
16. "For real? That's kind of creepy." Reacher said, "I know. And I'm real" ~ Lee Child
17. "The guy who was standing said, "We don't want you here." Reacher said, "You're confusing me with someone who gives a shit what you want." ~ Lee Child
18. "of overspill parking back there, facing plain painted delivery" ~ Lee Child
19. "were under the very erroneous impression that we had money. Of" ~ Lee Child
20. "veterans and remarkable rookies. International Thriller Writers, Inc. (ITW) cofounder, David" ~ Lee Child
21. "Reacher said, "So here's the thing Brett. Either you take your hand off my chest, or I'll take it off your wrist." ~ Lee Child
22. "Never forgive, never forget. Do it once and do it right. You reap what you sow. Plans go to hell as soon as the first shot is fired. Protect and serve. Never off duty." ~ Lee Child
23. "Hope for the best, plan for the worst." ~ Lee Child
24. "I'm a rich man. To have everything you need is the definition of affluence." ~ Lee Child
25. "I'm not a vagrant. I'm a hobo. Big difference." ~ Lee Child
26. "I had a teacher once, grade school somewhere. Philippines, I think, because she always wore a big white hat. So it was somewhere hot. I was always twice the size of the other kids, and she used to say to me: count to ten before you get mad, Reacher. And I've counted way past ten on this one. Way past." ~ Lee Child
27. "You do not mess with the special investigators." ~ Lee Child
28. "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." ~ Lee Child
29. "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." ~ Lee Child
30. "hit them fast, hit them hard, and hit them a lot" ~ Lee Child
31. "Enough, a person might say, if that person lived in the civilized world, the world of movies and television and fair play and decent restraint. But Reacher didn't live there. He lived in a world where you don't start fights but you sure as hell finish them, and you don't lose them either, and he was the inheritor of generations of hard-won wisdom that said the best way to lose them was to assume they were over when they weren't yet." ~ Lee Child
32. "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." ~ Lee Child
33. "I'd lost something I never knew I'd had." ~ Lee Child
34. "He had learned a long time ago that some things were worth being afraid of. And some things were not. Things that he had done before and survived did not justify fear. To be afraid of a survivable thing was irrational." ~ Lee Child
35. "Granger" ~ Lee Child
36. "You think you've been in deep shit before, and then you realise you have absolutely no conception of how deep shit can really be." ~ Lee Child
37. "painful, and he clamped them together in his left hand," ~ Lee Child
38. "The thriller is not a recent invention. It probably goes back to the dawn of storytelling." ~ Lee Child
39. "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
40. "I'd been a thriller reader all my life." ~ Lee Child
41. "My mother still calls me Jim and that is about it. Everyone else calls me Lee. My wife calls me whatever." ~ Lee Child
42. "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." ~ Lee Child
43. "The way to write a thriller is to ask a question at the beginning, and answer it at the end." ~ Lee Child
44. "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." ~ Lee Child
45. "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." ~ Lee Child
46. "A calm environment is for after I finish work." ~ Lee Child
47. "For me the end of a book is just as exciting as it is for a reader." ~ Lee Child
48. "I have a kind of old-fashioned, artisan approach." ~ Lee Child
49. "I need a stimulating environment to write because my books are driven at 100 miles per hour at a time." ~ Lee Child
50. "I think my books come out very visual, which is an obvious consequence." ~ Lee Child
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