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

— Lynn Abbey

#enough #good #ground #instinct #just

My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#book #corner #curl #dusty #habit

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

#cartridge #draft #few #final #final draft

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

#balance #because #commitment #different #dull

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

— Lynn Abbey

#compares #nothing #round #unexpected

Because when you watch U.S. television, all the presenters and reporters, they're all out of central casting. ↗

— Diane Abbott

#casting #central #out #reporters #television

Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue. ↗

— Diane Abbott

#crime #cultural #deeply #distress #entrenched

For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith. ↗

— Felix Adler

#faith #formulas #men #more #quarreled

Religion is not a conclusion of the reason. ↗

— Lyman Abbott

#reason #religion

Keep the faith, don't lose your perseverance and always trust your gut extinct. ↗

— Paula Abdul

#always #extinct #gut #keep #lose