“One of my great passions is the collection of historical trivia.” — Lynn Abbey Quote

One of my great passions is the collection of historical trivia.

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.

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

Editors of open anthologies actively seek submissions from all comers, established and unknown. They are willing to read whatever the tide washes up at their feet.

That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me.

Society is completely unreasonable. People want everything and want to pay for nothing. They panic if they think about their taxes being raised, but if their garbage collection is a day late they scream and yell.

I own one movie by fellow Swede Ingmar Bergman, because I have to. You can't be a movie critic with a collection of six or seven hundred DVDs that includes everything from 'Tokyo Story' to 'Poison Ivy: The New Seduction' and not have a Bergman movie.

We had a really vast music collection and I was raised around rock'n'roll, it's just the way it was.

Designers and musicians are primed to keep thinking forward. Once an album or collection launches, you can only think about doing the next one.