Top 8 Quotes by Lincoln Child

I try to write about things, places, events, and phenomena I know about personally. That helps make the novels more genuine.

I try to write about things, places, events, and phenomena I know about personally. That helps make the novels more genuine.

Lincoln Child

Writing, Trying, Events

The simplest explanation is most often the correct one.

Lincoln Child

Explanation, Simplest

The funny thing about writing is I think a lot of people assume that you're sitting in a garret with a quill pen for hour after hour.

Lincoln Child

Writing, Thinking, Funny Things

"The Power of Two: Bonus Outtakes From WD Interview With Lincoln Child & Douglas Preston". Interview with Brian A. Klems, www.writersdigest.com. January 12, 2012.

Writing on your own is, in a way, a very lonely profession. There's no one there to help you.

Lincoln Child

Lonely, Writing, Way

"The Power of Two: Bonus Outtakes From WD Interview With Lincoln Child & Douglas Preston". Interview with Brian A. Klems, www.writersdigest.com. January 12, 2012.

For me, writing never gets easier. It's always hard work. It doesn't matter how many words you wrote the day before, or how many novels you've completed in the last decade: every day you start fresh again with that same blank page, or that same blank screen.

Lincoln Child

Hard Work, Writing, Pages

There are some writers I think who love to go around and visit bookstores and just interact.

Lincoln Child

Thinking, Bookstores

"The Power of Two: Bonus Outtakes From WD Interview With Lincoln Child & Douglas Preston". Writer's Digest Interview, www.writersdigest.com. January 12, 2012.

My first job out of college was as an editorial assistant in a New York publishing house. Being an editorial assistant is the purgatory would-be editors must endure before they can ascend the ladder and begin acquiring books on their own. I spent a year filing paperwork, writing copy, and typing rejection letters.

Lincoln Child

Jobs, New York, Book