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Quotes of Lynn Abbey
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I'm dense when it comes to discouragement. (unknown)
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. (writers)
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. (writers)
I've got two degrees in medieval history. (history and historia)
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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. (story and story-tell)
I've thought about writing in other genres, but my imagination just doesn't seem to lead me in other directions. (writers)
Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down. (ideas)
If I want to write SF, I'll have to write it under another name. (unknown)
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. (writers)
In the last few years I've become more reliant on the Internet for research. I'm addicted to Google. (internet)
It took me about 12 years to reach my million-word mark. The challenge now is to continue to challenge myself. (words)
It's been a long time since I've written old-fashioned sword and sorcery; I'm hoping it's like riding a bicycle. (writers)
It's harder to get stand-alone material published, but it's worth the wait and effort, and then, if you really want to do a Star Trek novel, you can pretty much dictate the terms. (writers)
It's possible to become so comfortable with one's style and structure that one ceases to grow. (unknown)
Magic works differently for every author who's written for the series. (work)
Magical realism is based on magical magic, that is, the happening of things that cannot be explained by the characters and are not explained by the author. (reality)
My parents might say that I started telling stories when I learned to talk and decided that I'd become a writer the day I recognized a typewriter. (parents and parentin)
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. (writers)
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. (writers)
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. (writers)
Nothing is too obscure for my interest. You just never know when some quirk of science or history is going to prove useful. (writers)
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. (writers)
One of my great passions is the collection of historical trivia. (passion)
Our little writer's colony existed for about three years and it would take nearly that long to share the stories we accumulated. (writers)
Persistence pays and so does a willingness to follow directions. (unknown)
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Abbey, Lynn | [2]
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