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Story 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'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.
- 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…
- 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 anything…
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