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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

#century #dense #filled #helium #i

It took me about 12 years to reach my million-word mark. The challenge now is to continue to challenge myself. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#challenge #continue #mark #me #myself

It's been a long time since I've written old-fashioned sword and sorcery; I'm hoping it's like riding a bicycle. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#bicycle #hoping #i #like #long

I escaped one time. In 1971 I was in the free world for six weeks. ↗

— Jack Henry Abbott

#free #free world #i #one time #six

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

— Lynn Abbey

#ceases #comfortable #grow #possible #structure

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. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#believe #ensured #futures #get #good

Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death. ↗

— Berenice Abbott

#acted #approach #build #creative #death

The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is. ↗

— Berenice Abbott

#image #instrument #more #preservation

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself. ↗

— Berenice Abbott

#grow #grow up #imitates #itself #medium

You can't defend the indefensible - anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical. ↗

— Diane Abbott

#defend #hypocritical #indefensible #say #self-serving