"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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Source : "The Power of Two: Bonus Outtakes From WD Interview With Lincoln Child & Douglas Preston". Interview with Brian A. Klems, www.writersdigest.com. January 12, 2012.

Lincoln Child

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Funny Things Quotes

“Even the genius ask questions.”
“Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.”
“When we're in a human body, we don't care about universal collapse - instead, we care only about a meeting of the eyes, a glimpse of bare flesh, the caressing tones of a loved voice, joy, love, light, the orientation of a house plant, the shade of a paint stroke, the arrangement of hair.”
“You have to live with the people in hypocrisy for them to stay happy with you.”
“I come alive when I'm painting. I like to work in oils and acrylics, and the full sensory engagement and self-expression is very stimulating to me.”

Source : Source: www.violetgrey.com
“I wasnt a good rule-breaker when I was younger.”
“Ultimately, leadership is about the strength of one's convictions, the ability to endure the punches, and the energy to promote an idea. And I have found that those who do achieve peace never acquiesce to obstacles, especially those constructed of bigotry, intolerance, and inflexible tradition.”

Source : "Architects of Peace: Visions of Hope in Words and Images". Book by Michael Collopy, 2000.
“Individuality in opinion, or, what is more, in thinking, is simply one with thinking at all; for he who thinks thereby looks at the thing or the fact itself and takes its measure by observation directly, not content with the measures of others.”

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