Lynn Abbey Quotes About Short Stories

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

  Lynn Abbey

  Writing, Intuition, Stories

• For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.

  Lynn Abbey

  Writing, Stories, Novel

• 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.

  Lynn Abbey

  Commitment, Writing, Two

• 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

  Writing, Literature, Stories

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin