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

- Lynn Abbey

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

- 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 clai…

- Lynn Abbey

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.

- Lynn Abbey

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 any…

- Lynn Abbey

I'm dense when it comes to discouragement.

- Lynn Abbey

There is nothing that compares to an unexpected round of applause.

- Lynn Abbey

That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me.

- Lynn Abbey