Lynn Abbey Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“I'm always trolling for trivia.”

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

“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 the reader has made a different commitment.”

“It took me about 12 years to reach my million-word mark. The challenge now is to continue to challenge myself.”

“One of my great passions is the collection of historical trivia.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”