Quotes by Lynn Abbey

"Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down."
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"A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story."
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"For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel."
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"The perceptive reader may notice small inconsistencies in the characters appearing in these stories. Their speech patterns, their accounts of certain events, and their observations on the town’s pecking order vary from time to time These are not inconsistencies!"
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"Truth attracts truth as time attracts time"
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Lynn Abbey
  • Lynn Abbey

  • Date of birth: September 18
  • Born: in Peekskill, New York, The United States.

  • Description: Lynn Abbey began publishing in 1979 with the novel Daughter of the Bright Moon and the short story "The Face of Chaos," part of a Thieves World shared world anthology. She received early encouragement from Gordon R. Dickson.

    In the 1980s she married Robert Asprin and became his co-editor on the Thieves World books. She also contributed to other shared world series during the 1980s, including Heroes in Hell and Merovingen Nights.

    Abbey and Asprin divorced in 1993 and Abbey moved to Oklahoma City. She continued to write novels during this period, including original works as well as tie-ins to Role Playing Games for TSR. In 2002, she returned to Thieves World with the novel Sanctuary and also began editing new anthologies, beginning with Turning Points.

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