43 Quotes by Lynn Abbey

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.

The money can be decent, but I really don't recommend the work-for-hire route as an entry into publishing. Too many things can go wrong.

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.

Neophyte writers tend to believe that there is something magical about ideas and that if they can just get a hold of a good one, then their futures are ensured.

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

When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat.

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'm dense when it comes to discouragement.

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 helium.