18 Quotes by Lincoln Child

The simplest explanation is most often the correct one.

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.

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.

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

And yet it was not authentic, of course, because no real boardwalk of 1910 had been this perfect. It was like a fondly remembered nostalgic confection, a past sanitized of its imperfections, buttressed by an arsenal of hidden technology.

If you are going to walk on thin ice, he said, you might as well dance.

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 I enjoy cryptozoological legends as much as the next man: There ain’t no Nessie.” This.

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

Perhaps some day it will be pleasant to remember even this.