Chelsea Quinn Yarbro quotes
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“Storylines are how characters create the plots involved in their stories.”
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“If they aren't real enough to surprise me, then they aren't real enough to go on the page.”
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“When you're a mid-list writer, it pays to write fast.”
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“Providing a writer isn't put off by conventions - and some are - attending them can be a nice break from the necessary isolation of writing.”
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“I'm not a good collaborator in general.”
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“I ride horseback - arthritic knees permitting - or listen to opera. Sometimes I cook. I used to do needlework, but it's hard on my hands now, so I only do it occasionally, but I like it. And, of course, I read.”
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“I outline fairly extensively because I'm usually dealing with real events. I don't need to give myself as much information as I used to, but I still like to have two pages of outline for every projected 100 pages of manuscript.”
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“Common folk didn't have last names in the 8th and 9th centuries.”
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“I think it is probably more important to attend specialized conventions for a journeyman writer than any other, but it's useful at all stages of a career, if for nothing else, to find out how the industry is working at any given time.”
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“Isn't that an odd philosophy for a vampire?”
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“Very few editors worry about heresy - their goals are much too commercial, thank goodness.”
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“Art goes into the world unarmed, vulnerable to every quirk of fate, and it must survive only by its power to move men not to destroy it.”
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