Joseph C. Lincoln quotes

Joseph C. Lincoln, a renowned American author, was born in 1870. Known for his captivating storytelling, Lincoln wrote numerous novels set on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. With a deep understanding of the local culture, his works vividly depict life in small coastal towns. Joseph's most famous novel, "Cape Cod Stories," gained immense popularity with its rich characters and charming narratives. As an influential voice in American literature, Lincoln's books continue to entertain readers around the world. Explore the intriguing world of Cape Cod through Joseph C. Lincoln's timeless tales of adventure and community bonds.

My Cape women are generally true to type - big hearted, motherly women who love the sea. My other characters, with the exception of the Portuguese, who I occasionally mention as Cape dwellers, are obviously drawn from the city types one sees in everyday life.

- Joseph C. Lincoln

At that moment Mr. Clifford, quite unconscious that he and his most personal feelings and aspirations were subjects of discussion, was turning from the main road into the lower road.

- Joseph C. Lincoln

That was in the days when everyone rode a bicycle, and the journal had a circulation of over one hundred and twenty-five thousand weekly, so my verses and illustrations became known to a fairly large public.

- Joseph C. Lincoln

My father was a sea captain, so was his father, and his father before him, and all my uncles. My mother's people all followed the sea. I suppose that if I had been born a few years earlier, I would have had my own ship.

- Joseph C. Lincoln

But very unfortunately the merchant marine died away till even the majority of fishing done about the Cape is in the hands of the Portuguese who emigrated to the Cape some fifty years ago.

- Joseph C. Lincoln