American - Author | September 18, 1948 -
A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.
Lynn Abbey
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It's possible to become so comfortable with one's style and structure that one ceases to grow.
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One of my great passions is the collection of historical trivia.
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When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat.
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I'm one of those writers who, when writing, believes she's god-and that she hasn't bestowed free will on any of her characters. In that sense there are no surprises in any of my books.
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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.
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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.
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I'm always trolling for trivia.
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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.
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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.
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I'm dense when it comes to discouragement.
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There is nothing that compares to an unexpected round of applause.
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