Top 14 Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Quotes
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#8. Very few editors worry about heresy - their goals are much too commercial, thank goodness.
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
#9. When it was cooler, Trazada made a simple meal of sausage, cheese, and bread. She had schooled herself to wait dinner until hunger urged her to eat; it gave seasoning to poor food that no spice could furnish.
("The Generalissimo's Butterfly")
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
#11. 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
#13. 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
#14. If they aren't real enough to surprise me, then they aren't real enough to go on the page.
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
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