Quotes by Lynn Abbey

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

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. (Lynn Abbey)

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. (Lynn Abbey)

I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand by jumping genre. (Lynn Abbey)

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. (Lynn Abbey)

I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans. (Lynn Abbey)

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. (Lynn Abbey)

Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down. (Lynn Abbey)

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. (Lynn Abbey)

Im 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. (Lynn Abbey)