Quotes by Lynn Abbey, page 3

Lynn Abbey - american Author

Life period: 1948

It's possible to become so comfortable with one's style and structure that one ceases to grow.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about style

Magic works differently for every author who's written for the series.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about magic

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.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about magic, things

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.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about parents, writers, day

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.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about habits, research, writing, history, love

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.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about writers, good, good luck

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.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about time

Nothing is too obscure for my interest. You just never know when some quirk of science or history is going to prove useful.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about interest, science, history, nothing

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.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about love, word

One of my great passions is the collection of historical trivia.

Our little writer's colony existed for about three years and it would take nearly that long to share the stories we accumulated.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about writers

Persistence pays and so does a willingness to follow directions.

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.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about love, writing, common sense, sense

That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about faith

The actual process of selling my first novel was exciting at the time. I was no longer an apprentice but had become a journeyman.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about time

The books I've written for gaming companies are a like games of miniature golf where the object is to weave an interesting story through an obstacle course.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about games, companies, obstacles, books

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.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about bad, money, work, things

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

Quote by Lynn Abbey about unforeseen, nothing

There's a lot of hearsay and worse out on the Internet and, though I write fiction, I like to think that my background information is solid.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about fiction, internet

Thieves' World is otherwise known as the project that ate my life in the '80s.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about thieves, world, life