Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Quotes

"Very few editors worry about heresy - their goals are much too commercial, thank goodness."
- Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
(Related: Goals, Editors, Goodness, Heresy, Worry)

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

"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
(Related: Isolation, Writer, Writing)

"Isn't that an odd philosophy for a vampire?"
- Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
(Related: Philosophy)

"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
(Related: Now, Opera)

"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
(Related: Events, Information)

"Common folk didn't have last names in the 8th and 9th centuries."
- Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
(Related: Folk, Names)

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