“For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a nove...” — Lynn Abbey Quote

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

Once you've invested hundreds of hours in creating a coherent universe, your story's grown to around a half-million words and can't be written as anything less than a trilogy.

I'm one of those writers who, when writing, believes she's god-and that she hasn't bestowed free will on any of her characters. In that sense there are no surprises in any of my books.

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

I'm not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably get it published.

I'll always use the negativity as more motivation to work even harder and become even stronger.

I always liked to take on the middle pockets. They're much harder.

Every day I spend time on the treadmill. I am walking faster, stronger and harder than I was two months ago.

One of the most important things that teachers teach students is you, you can work harder. You are mentally tougher than you think.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.