I'm not quite Honoré de Balzac, but I can't start without a strong espresso. After an hour and a half or so, I need another. Nothing else, mind, and certainly not alcohol. Can't imagine anything more ridiculous than drink-writing. — Paul Lynch Copy Share Image
I find that jazz loosens up the deep place of my mind, lets me find my own strange rhythms. Generally, I find the knottier the jazz, the better. Anything with singing is a distraction. Listening to classical music tends to… — Paul Lynch Copy Share Image
“I spend a lot of time on my own thinking betwixt me and the saddle and I ain’t come up with much but I… — Paul Lynch Copy Share Image
I'm not quite Honoré de Balzac, but I can't start without a strong espresso. After an hour and a half or so, I need… — Paul Lynch Copy Share Image
"Night sky was black and then there was blood, morning crack of light on the edge of the earth." The ideal first sentence contains… — Paul Lynch Copy Share Image
“Freedom is your soul in the emptiness of night. Freedom is this dark that is as great as what it holds the stars and… — Paul Lynch Copy Share Image
I find that jazz loosens up the deep place of my mind, lets me find my own strange rhythms. Generally, I find the knottier… — Paul Lynch Copy Share Image
“This place called heaven, this realm of perfection and life everlasting. When it comes down to it, nobody ever wants to go there. Now… — Paul Lynch Copy Share Image
I read continually and don't understand writers who say they don't read while working on a book. For a start, a book takes me… — Paul Lynch Copy Share Image
“Daylight tricks you into thinking what you see is truth, lets you go through life thinking you know everything. But the truth is we… — Paul Lynch Copy Share Image
I write in Times New Roman, 12 point, and arrange the margins so that the screen looks like a page from a book. This… — Paul Lynch Copy Share Image
Sometimes, I like to imagine the perfect reader - the reader who not just understands what I am about, but soaks up every word… — Paul Lynch Copy Share Image
“The sea in the distance opening a doorway. Familiar faces turning in half-light and sounds of speech and the way that each body moves… — Paul Lynch Copy Share Image
I particularly like the catchphrase of Leonardo Da Vinci: Ostinato Rigore! (Which means, pretty much, Relentless Rigor). — Paul Lynch Copy Share Image
