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

During the many centuries that magic, here on this planet, was presumed to have worked, there were at least as many theories as to how magic worked as there were cultures and religions.

Culture

Literature

Magic

Editors of open anthologies actively seek submissions from all comers, established and unknown. They are willing to read whatever the tide washes up at their feet.

Editors

Feet

Literature

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

Novel

Stories

Writing

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.

Editors

Genre Is

Jumping

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

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

Book

Orphan

Writing

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.

Editing

Editors

Successful

I’m dense when it comes to discouragement.

Dense

Discouragement

I’m not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably get it published.

Fantasy Novels

Literature

Stories

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Discouraging

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Editors

Fantasy Novels

Feet

Finals

Genre Is

Half

Heartbeat

Historical

Ideas

Intuition

Jumping

Literature

Long

Magic

Mark

Novel

Orphan

Passion

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Stories

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Successful

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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.

During the many centuries that magic, here on this planet, was presumed to have worked, there were at least as many theories as to how magic worked as there were cultures and religions.

Editors of open anthologies actively seek submissions from all comers, established and unknown. They are willing to read whatever the tide washes up at their feet.

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

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.

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 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.

I’m dense when it comes to discouragement.

I’m not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably get it published.

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