Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Lincoln Child

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American author Lincoln Child.

Last updated on September 17, 2024.

Lincoln Child is an American author of techno-thriller and horror novels. Though he is most well known for his collaborations with Douglas Preston, he has also written seven solo novels, including the Jeremy Logan series. Over twenty of the collaborative novels and most of his solo novels have become New York Times bestsellers, some reaching the #1 position. Child and Preston's first novel together, Relic, was adapted into a feature film. Their books are notable for their thorough research and scientific accuracy.

American - Author | Born: 1957

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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.

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

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

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

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

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The simplest explanation is most often the correct one.

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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.

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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.

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