Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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.

If they aren't real enough to surprise me, then they aren't real enough to go on the page.

Isn't that an odd philosophy for a vampire?

I'm not a good collaborator in general.

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