Top 18 Lynn Abbey Quotes

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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.
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I’m always trolling for trivia.
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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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I’m dense when it comes to discouragement.
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Ideas aren’t magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.
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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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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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That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me.
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I write sets of books, but I’ve also written a lot of orphans.
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For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.
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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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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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One of my great passions is the collection of historical trivia.
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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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A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.
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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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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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