Quotes by Lynn Abbey about Writing

8 quotes by Lynn Abbey about writing

Lynn Abbey American Author

Every so often I'd be able to write a scene with greater...

Every so often I'd be able to write a scene with greater flourish because I'd gotten lucky with my words as I was writing them down, but no surprises.

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For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than...

For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.

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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.

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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've thought about writing in other genres, but my...

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

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My writing has to support more than my research habit, ...

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.

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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.

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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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