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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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"One of the things that I loved about listening to Miles Davis is that Miles always had an instinct for which musicians were great for what situations. He could always pick a band, and that was the thing that separated him from everybody else."
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"When instinct speaks, listen to it. It might be the next push you need to reach greater heights."
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"There are many paths beyond the rules of limited thinking. Trust your instincts!"
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"When I see a slippery slope, my instinct is to build a terrace."
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"A 'biomass' man reaction comes from reflexes and instinct."
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"We would not reliably assent to reproduce unless we first had lost our minds."
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"If you swim with sharks, make sure you have the appetite of a whale."
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"Leap out the window, my inner Tigress cried. You aren't ready to face such a powerful Tiger. I frowned. I thought a true Tigress never backed down from a fight. Don't you know anything? When she's in heat, she avoids everything male. Now run!"
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"I'm not a marketing person. I don't ask myself questions. I go by instinct."
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"Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct."
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Explore more quotes by Lynn Abbey
"I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand by jumping genre."
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"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."
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"I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans."
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"It's been a long time since I've written old-fashioned sword and sorcery; I'm hoping it's like riding a bicycle."
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"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."
Creativity
"It's possible to become so comfortable with one's style and structure that one ceases to grow."
Style
"There is nothing that compares to an unexpected round of applause."
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"If you write, one of the questions you're always trying to answer is, Where do you get your ideas? And, if you write, you know how pointless a question this is and how difficult it is to answer."
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"Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down."
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"When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat."
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