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Short 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.
- 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…
- 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…
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