Writing Quotes by Lincoln Child

I can't listen to music while writing - any such distraction would have dreadful consequences.

— Lincoln Child

“All this time, he’d been thinking in two dimensions…forgetting that there was also a Z axis to be considered.”

— Lincoln Child

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…

— Lincoln Child

“Admiral Spartan thinks that the object must be exposed and penetrated with all possible speed.”

— Lincoln Child

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

— Lincoln Child

“And so, ladies and gentlemen, you can take as fact the four words I’m about to speak—though I speak them with some regret, since…

— Lincoln Child

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

— Lincoln Child

My first job out of college was as an editorial assistant in a New York publishing house. Being an editorial assistant is the purgatory…

— Lincoln Child

The simplest explanation is most often the correct one.

— Lincoln Child

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

— Lincoln Child

“Perhaps some day it will be pleasant to remember even this.’ ” Mykolos”

— Lincoln Child

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…

— Lincoln Child