Quotes by Jane Lindskold - Page 1

Copy editors are very important and too rarely praised.
Jane Lindskold / Writer
Editors
Copy
Praised
Rarely
Copy Quote
The only thing I like about air travel is it gives me time to read.
Jane Lindskold / Writer
Air Travel
Time Travel Me
The Only Thing
Copy Quote
Writing - not being a writer with interesting habits - gets priority.
Jane Lindskold / Writer
Habits
Copy Quote
My first five novels were written longhand. So were hosts of short stories.
Jane Lindskold / Writer
Hosts
Longhand
Short Stories
Copy Quote
A common complaint about stories that include excessive coincidence is that the story is 'unrealistic.'
Jane Lindskold / Writer
Coincidence
Complaint
Excessive
Include
Unrealistic
Copy Quote
To be a writer, you need to like spending a lot of time by yourself in the company of imaginary people.
Jane Lindskold / Writer
Imaginary
Time Yourself People
Copy Quote
There is no shame in strategic retreat if it lets you remain strong enough to go after the enemy later.
Jane Lindskold / Writer
Enemy
Retreat
Strong
Copy Quote
My feeling is that writing Fantasy should be harder - not easier - than writing any other kind of fiction.
Jane Lindskold / Writer
Fantasy
Copy Quote
Words build a bridge between the imaginations of writer and reader, creating something unique between them.
Jane Lindskold / Writer
Bridge
Imaginations
Copy Quote
I don't need music to write, but sometimes I put music on. I don't need special clothes or even my own equipment.
Jane Lindskold / Writer
Equipment
Copy Quote
Readers are always surprised to learn that authors have little or no input regarding the cover art for their books.
Jane Lindskold / Writer
Input
Authors
Cover
Readers
Regarding
Surprised
Copy Quote
I've had over a dozen and a half novels published since late 1994 when my first novel, 'Brother to Dragons, Companion to Owls' came out.
Jane Lindskold / Writer
Companion
Dozen
Dragons
Owls
Published
Copy Quote
Well done, Sister," Blind Seer said. "I look forward to meeting this One above Ones. Now, you must make ready. I, of course, am already perfect.
Jane Lindskold / Writer
Done
Looks
Perfect
Copy Quote
I love print fiction, but sometimes when I'm reading a good graphic novel or manga, I find myself envying those who work in an illustrated format.
Jane Lindskold / Writer
Format
Graphic
Print
Love Work Good
Illustrated
Manga
Copy Quote
For his part, Blind Seer had no difficulty accepting idleness. A wolf proverb stated: “Hunt when hungry, sleep when not, for hunger always returns.
Jane Lindskold / Writer
Hunger
Return
Sleep
Copy Quote
'Legends Walking' was the first of my books to go to a second printing based on strong initial orders, but much of that printing never found its audience.
Jane Lindskold / Writer
Legends
Initial
Orders
Copy Quote
The sad thing is that, for many writers of fantasy fiction, the inclusion of magic seems to mean that logical ramifications and real-world laws both go out the window.
Jane Lindskold / Writer
Fantasy
Inclusion
Logical
Ramifications
Window
Sad Thing
Copy Quote
Even after the text is written, there are a tremendous number of stages along the way to the finished book. If a publisher cares about the finished product, none of them will be omitted.
Jane Lindskold / Writer
Finished
Cares
Tremendous
Finished Product
Publisher
Stages
Text
Copy Quote
When I was finishing grad school, the hot new PC was the IBM 286. Bulky. Immobile. Expensive. I touched-typed easily and quickly, but nevertheless, I realized that the machine was a chain.
Jane Lindskold / Writer
Expensive
Finishing
Grad
Grad School
Ibm
Nevertheless
Chain
Easily
Immobile
Pc
Quickly
Realized
Copy Quote
Coincidence is a recognized element in 'real life.' All of us have anecdotes about those times when, by the merest coincidence, we avoided some disaster or stumbled onto some wonderful experience.
Jane Lindskold / Writer
Anecdotes
Avoided
Coincidence
Disaster
Real Life
Wonderful
Wonderful Experience
Life Experience Real
Element
Onto
Recognized
Stumbled
Copy Quote
There are other types of public appearances a writer does in addition to book signings and readings. Each calls for different skills. None of these skills, needless to say, are those that go into writing books.
Jane Lindskold / Writer
Skills
Addition
Appearances
Book Signings
Calls
Needless
Types
Copy Quote
One of the ironies of being a professional writer is that, if you are even moderately successful, the very traits that let you succeed as a writer are not much help when the time comes to head out as 'The Author.'
Jane Lindskold / Writer
Succeed
Successful
Traits
Writer
Author
Head
Ironies
Moderately
Professional Writer
Copy Quote
The futuristic city on 'Legends Walking's cover rejects any connection with the contemporary setting of 'Changer.' It was as if every effort was made to keep readers of 'Changer' from finding this stand-alone sequel.
Jane Lindskold / Writer
Contemporary
Futuristic
Legends
Rejects
Setting
Connection
Cover
Readers
Sequel
Copy Quote
When a writer is already stretching the bounds of reality by writing within a science fiction or fantasy setting, that writer must realize that excessive coincidence makes the fictional reality the writer is creating less 'real.'
Jane Lindskold / Writer
Science
Bounds
Coincidence
Creating
Fantasy
Reality
Science Fiction
Setting
Stretching
Within
Writer
Excessive
Fictional
Copy Quote
I've never met any artist who illustrated one of my books, although I've corresponded briefly with one. I have always been impressed by the technical expertise involved in the covers, even if sometimes puzzled by the subject matter.
Jane Lindskold / Writer
Expertise
Impressed
Puzzled
Subject Matter
Corresponded
Covers
Illustrated
Copy Quote
'Thirteen Orphans' is the name of a specific limit hand. The same combination is also called 'Thirteen Improbable.' Once I'd decided I wanted to write a tale where mah-jong would be at the heart, I also knew I wanted to use limit hands.
Jane Lindskold / Writer
Combination
Improbable
Thirteen
Limit
Orphans
Tale
Copy Quote
True confession time: I never know where a book is going. I get a gut feeling the story is there, then pursue it with the enthusiasm of a hunting tiger on a trail. If I knew where I was going, I'd get bored out of my mind and stop writing.
Jane Lindskold / Writer
Bored
Confession
Enthusiasm
Hunting
Pursue
Gut
Gut Feeling
Tiger
Trail
Copy Quote
Diana Wynne Jones' excellent book 'The Tough Guide to Fantasyland' is a compendium of the sort of lazy writing that has given fantasy fiction - especially the sub-section that features elves and dwarves and other Tolkienesque elements - a bad name.
Jane Lindskold / Writer
Diana
Elements
Fantasy
Features
Lazy
Guide
Copy Quote
Is she become a rag doll? Are the wolves become children? It seems quite possible, there on the twilight fringes of dying. With some faint spark of herself, the little girl holds on to the idea. Even a rag doll has more life than does a dying child.
Jane Lindskold / Writer
Girl
Children
Twilight
Copy Quote
Sometimes I write less than I'd like but do research. Other times, editor's notes or a copy-edited manuscript or page proofs for a forthcoming novel mean that I need to put my attentions elsewhere for a day or two, but I always come back to writing.
Jane Lindskold / Writer
Elsewhere
Forthcoming
Notes
Attentions
Editor
Manuscript
Page
Copy Quote
I realize that, to many readers, Hard Fantasy may seem to be a contradiction in terms. Fantasy, according to most generally recognized definitions, differs from both 'real world' fiction and 'science fiction' in that magic or magical creatures are active elements.
Jane Lindskold / Writer
Active
Contradiction
Definitions
Elements
Fantasy
Real World
According
Differs
Magical
Readers
Recognized
Copy Quote
In any story, drama may be intensified by the characters realizing by how narrow a margin they had managed to succeed - that is, where coincidence played a role. This is one of the more realistic ways to use coincidence because rarely do we realize how important a coincidental event is until after the fact.
Jane Lindskold / Writer
Coincidence
Realistic
Succeed
Event
Intensified
Margin
Narrow
Rarely
Copy Quote
I started seriously applying myself to writing fiction immediately after I finished graduate school. By 'seriously,' I mean that, instead of noodling along on a story, finishing it or not as the mood struck me, I set out to complete what I started, to polish it to the best of my ability, and to send out the finished story.
Jane Lindskold / Writer
Finishing
Graduate School
Mood
Best Myself Me
Applying
Graduate
Immediately
Send
Struck
Copy Quote
Firekeeper still could not understand the human penchant for eating in company. Even less so, she could not understand the human desire to combine business and meals. True, a wolf pack shared a kill, but not from any great desire to do so—rather because any who departed the scene would be unlikely to get a share... She struggled...not to bolt her food and almost always remembered that growling when a person spoke to you was not a proper response.
Jane Lindskold / Writer
Departed
Desire
Wolf Packs
Copy Quote
I thought," Shad said slowly, "that she was offended if you referred to Blind Seer or Elation as her pets.""True," Derian assured him. "Absolutely the correct etiquette-to her face. However, well... When I first met Firekeeper, less than a year ago, her relationships with animals fell into pretty much two categories: those you ate and those you befriended. I remember that she thought we were pretty clever for bringing horses along so we wouldn't need to hunt our meat. It took me a while to show her they had other uses.
Jane Lindskold / Writer
Animal
Clever
Horse
Copy Quote

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