43 Quotes by Lynn Abbey

Im always trolling for trivia.

I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I don't claim to have all of them at my command.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.