43 Quotes by Lynn Abbey

When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery.

It's possible to become so comfortable with one's style and structure that one ceases to grow.

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

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

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.

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 less than a trilogy.

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.

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

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.