Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Quotes

• Storylines are how characters create the plots involved in their stories.

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  Character, Plot, Stories

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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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  Art, Moving, Fate

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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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  Hands, Opera, Knees

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• Very few editors worry about heresy - their goals are much too commercial, thank goodness.

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  Editors, Goal, Worry

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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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  Real, Goes On, Pages

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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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  Time, Thinking, Careers

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• Common folk didn't have last names in the 8th and 9th centuries.

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  Common Folk, Names, Lasts

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• Isn't that an odd philosophy for a vampire?

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  Philosophy, Ghouls, Vampire

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• I'm not a good collaborator in general.

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  Colaboradores

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• When you're a mid-list writer, it pays to write fast.

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  Writing, Pay, Lists

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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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  Real, Two, Giving

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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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  Nice, Writing, Isolation

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