Lynn Abbey Quotes
Lynn Abbey Quotes
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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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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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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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I'm always trolling for trivia.
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I'm dense when it comes to discouragement.
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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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I'm one of those writers who, when writing, believes she's god-and that she hasn't bestowed free will on any of her characters. In that sense there are no surprises in any of my books.
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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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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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It's possible to become so comfortable with one's style and structure that one ceases to grow.
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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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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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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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That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me.
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The money can be decent, but I really don't recommend the work-for-hire route as an entry into publishing. Too many things can go wrong.
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There is nothing that compares to an unexpected round of applause.
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When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat.
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