Quotes by Lynn Abbey about Writers

12 quotes by Lynn Abbey about writers

Lynn Abbey American Author

A good editor-and I don't claim to be one-can deduce the ideal elements of a writer's style and story and administer the necessary guidance to trick the writer into revealing it.

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A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching...

A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.

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Before I was a writer I was a computer programmer.

Before I was a writer I was a computer programmer.

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Friends who are not writers try to be sympathetic and...

Friends who are not writers try to be sympathetic and understanding of a writer's mood, but, truly, it takes one to know one.

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I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand by jumping genre.

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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 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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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.

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My parents might say that I started telling stories when...

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.

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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.

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Our little writer's colony existed for about three years...

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

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Were I to decide that I didn't want to be a genre writer, ...

Were I to decide that I didn't want to be a genre writer, or that I wanted to switch genres, I'd be looking at starting over.

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