Chelsea Quinn Yarbro famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Storylines are how characters create the plots involved in their stories.
-- Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

#Character #Plot #Stories
If they aren't real enough to surprise me, then they aren't real enough to go on the page.
-- Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

#Real #Pages #Goes On
When you're a mid-list writer, it pays to write fast.
-- Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

#Writing #Pay #Lists
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.
-- Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

#Nice #Writing #Isolation
I'm not a good collaborator in general.
-- Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
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.
-- Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

#Hands #Opera #Knees
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.
-- Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

#Real #Two #Giving
Common folk didn't have last names in the 8th and 9th centuries.
-- Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

#Names #Lasts #Common
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.
-- Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

#Time #Thinking #Careers
Isn't that an odd philosophy for a vampire?
-- Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

#Philosophy #Ghouls #Vampire
Very few editors worry about heresy - their goals are much too commercial, thank goodness.
-- Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

#Editors #Worry #Goal
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.
-- Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

#Art #Moving #Fate

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