Writing Quotes by Lynn Abbey

Lynn Abbey

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

Intuition

Stories

Writing

Lynn Abbey

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

Novel

Stories

Writing

Lynn Abbey

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.

Literature

Thinking

Writing

Lynn Abbey

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

Book

Orphan

Writing

Lynn Abbey

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.

Believe

Book

Writing

Lynn Abbey

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.

Literature

Stories

Writing

Lynn Abbey

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.

Always Trying

Ideas

Writing

Lynn Abbey

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.

Book

Support

Writing

Lynn Abbey

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.

Commitment

Two

Writing

Lynn Abbey

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

Blinded

Discouraging

Writing

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Chetan Bhagat

John Zorn

Ziauddin Yousafzai

Sam Neill

Always Trying

Applause

Believe

Blinded

Book

Challenges

Commitment

Creating

Culture

Decent

Dense

Discouragement

Discouraging

Editing

Editors

Fantasy Novels

Feet

Finals

Genre Is

Half

Heartbeat

Historical

Ideas

Intuition

Jumping

Literature

Long

Magic

Mark

Novel

Orphan

Passion

Publishing

Reading

Stories

Structure

Style

Successful

Support

Thinking

Trivia

Trying

Two

Typewriters

Unexpected

Writing

Years

Writing Quotes by Lynn Abbey

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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