Quotes by Lynn Abbey, page 2

Lynn Abbey - american Author

Life period: 1948

I have some history books that I come back to when I'm trying to debug my worlds.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about books, history

I love writing Thieves' World, but I feel a responsibility, too, to the other authors. I've lost many nights' sleep worrying if I've made the sandbox too large, too small.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about thieves, sleep, writing, world, love

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.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about language, end, time

I wish I knew how to imagine a short story, because I rather like the form, but they're too time-consuming for me to write on a regular basis.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about wish, time

I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about books

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.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about writers

I'm always trolling for trivia.

I'm dense when it comes to discouragement.

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.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about writers, books, writing, common sense, sense, god

I've got two degrees in medieval history.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about history

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.

I've thought about writing in other genres, but my imagination just doesn't seem to lead me in other directions.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about imagination, writing, thinking

Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.

If I want to write SF, I'll have to write it under another name.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about name

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.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about pointless, question

In the last few years I've become more reliant on the Internet for research. I'm addicted to Google.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about internet, research

In the process of defending the integrity of my story, I would clean up the structural problems without focusing on them. I've used it myself with the writers I've mentored.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about integrity, writers, problems

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

Quote by Lynn Abbey about word

It's been a long time since I've written old-fashioned sword and sorcery; I'm hoping it's like riding a bicycle.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about old, olderness, time

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.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about celebrity