A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.
More Quotes from Lynn Abbey:
That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me.Lynn Abbey
I'm dense when it comes to discouragement.
Lynn Abbey
I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans.
Lynn Abbey
No one uses a ribbon typewriter any more, but your final draft is not the time to try to wring a few more sheets out of your inkjet cartridge.
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
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
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Instinct QuotesBased on Keywords: short-story, sketching
So Indian policy has become institutionalized and the result has been that American people have become more dependent on government and that the American people have become more dependent on corporations.
Russell Means
But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense.
Charles Ives
I think that my interpretation of Italian was a lot more southern than what my husband cooks. You know, I grew up in Queens and in Brooklyn, and we - really, it's more southern. It's Naples and Sicily. It's heavier. It's over-spiced. And like most Americans, I thought spaghetti and meatballs was genius.
Debi Mazar