Lincoln Child Quotes

Lincoln Child — American Author

Lincoln Child is an American author of multiple techno-thriller and horror novels. Though he is most well known for his collaborations with Douglas Preston, he has also written five solo novels, including the Jeremy Logan series. Many of the collaborative novels have become bestsellers, and their first novel together, Relic, was adapted into a feature film. Child and Preston's books are notable for their thorough research... (wikipedia)

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.

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

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.

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

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