Riding a bicycle Quotes by Lynn Abbey

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

— Lynn Abbey

Neophyte writers tend to believe that there is something magical about ideas and that if they can just get a hold of a good…

— Lynn Abbey

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

— Lynn Abbey

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…

— Lynn Abbey

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

— Lynn Abbey

During the many centuries that magic, here on this planet, was presumed to have worked, there were at least as many theories as to…

— 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…

— Lynn Abbey

Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.

— Lynn Abbey

It took me about 12 years to reach my million-word mark. The challenge now is to continue to challenge myself.

— Lynn Abbey

It's been a long time since I've written old-fashioned sword and sorcery; I'm hoping it's like riding a bicycle.

— 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,…

— Lynn Abbey

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

— Lynn Abbey

I'm dense when it comes to discouragement.

— 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…

— Lynn Abbey

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

— Lynn Abbey