Lincoln Child famous quotes
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The simplest explanation is most often the correct one.
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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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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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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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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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Writing on your own is, in a way, a very lonely profession. There's no one there to help you.
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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.
-- Lincoln Child
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I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.
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We live by promises not by explanations.
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To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.
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As you yourself have said, what other explanation can there be?' Poirot stared straight ahead of him. 'That is what I ask myself,' he said. 'That is what I never cease to ask myself.
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The universe is incredibly wondrous, incredibly beautiful, and it fills me with a sense that there is some underlying explanation that we have yet to fully understand. If someone wants to place the word 'God' on those collections of words, it's OK with me.
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I always figured the American public wanted a solemn ***** for president, so I went along with them.
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Discovering a new explanation is inherently an act of creativity.
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Where we have good, testable explanations, they then have to be tested, and we drop the ones that fail the tests.
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The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.
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The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men.
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