As a writer, I'm driven by settings. Others are driven by characters or predicaments, but with me, settings come first. — Jim Lynch Copy Share Image
“...that's the nature of marine life and the inland bays I grew up on. You'd have to be a scientist, a poet and a… — Jim Lynch Copy Share Image
“Something had snapped between us, and I had no idea how to glue it back together.” — Jim Lynch Copy Share Image
“The word he used was coup, and I'm not speaking French just to arouse you.” — Jim Lynch Copy Share Image
“I hate myself pretty often" .She tilted her face back on the pillow, damning tears and attempting so smile at the same time. "Pretty… — Jim Lynch Copy Share Image
I was a political reporter for quite some time, so I followed around all sorts of different politicians. — Jim Lynch Copy Share Image
“It surprised me to want her [my mother] the most, but I'd never been miserable without her.” — Jim Lynch Copy Share Image
“Though Brandon claimed to be six-six, because that was all the height most people could fathom, he was actually a quarter inch over six-eight-and… — Jim Lynch Copy Share Image
I do think that there are gray lines of morality in a newsroom, when it comes to some stories. The best-intentioned journalist still has… — Jim Lynch Copy Share Image
“Grown-ups are always more fascinated by what you might become then what you are.” — Jim Lynch Copy Share Image
“See as much as you can see, I guess. Rachel Carson said most of us go through life "unseeing." I do that some days...I… — Jim Lynch Copy Share Image
“I was a fluke in a classroom full of flukes on a planet overpopulated by flukes.” — Jim Lynch Copy Share Image