Lynn Abbey ,quotes

Im always trolling for trivia...

Im always trolling for trivia.

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Short-story writing requires ...

Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment.

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I'm not constrained by being ...

I'm not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably get it published.

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It took me about 12 years to ...

It took me about 12 years to reach my million-word mark. The challenge now is to continue to challenge myself.

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There is nothing that compare...

There is nothing that compares to an unexpected round of applause.

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I'm dense when it comes to di...

I'm dense when it comes to discouragement.

Lynn Abbey 10.08.2025 21:10:23 85 quotes

I've read short stories that ...

I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.

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For me, writing a short story...

For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.

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I think my prose reads as if ...

I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I'm dodging bullets and gasping for breath.

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No one uses a ribbon typewrit...

No one uses a ribbon typewriter any more, but your final draft is not the time to try to wring a few more sheets out of your inkjet cartridge.

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My writing has to support mor...

My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history.

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I'm a writer first and an edi...

I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I don't claim to have all of them at my command.

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When I'm not writing or tweak...

When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery.

Lynn Abbey 10.08.2025 21:10:23 85 quotes

I'm always trolling for trivi...

I'm always trolling for trivia.

Lynn Abbey 10.08.2025 21:10:23 85 quotes

If you write, one of the ques...

If you write, one of the questions you're always trying to answer is, Where do you get your ideas? And, if you write, you know how pointless a question this is and how difficult it is to answer.

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During the many centuries tha...

During the many centuries that magic, here on this planet, was presumed to have worked, there were at least as many theories as to how magic worked as there were cultures and religions.

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Once you've invested hundreds...

Once you've invested hundreds of hours in creating a coherent universe, your story's grown to around a half-million words and can't be written as anything less than a trilogy.

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Neophyte writers tend to beli...

Neophyte writers tend to believe that there is something magical about ideas and that if they can just get a hold of a good one, then their futures are ensured.

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I do have a small collection ...

I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand by jumping genre.

Lynn Abbey 10.08.2025 21:10:23 85 quotes

A good short-story writer has...

A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.

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