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 comple…

- 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

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

- Lincoln Child

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

- 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 would-be edit…

- Lincoln Child

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

- 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 hour after hour.

- Lincoln Child