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A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about love, writers, instinct, good, good luck

There's a lot of hearsay and worse out on the Internet and, though I write fiction, I like to think that my background information is solid.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about fiction, internet

We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy...

Quote by M. H. Abrams about tests, voice, ability

The '70s was a lost time for me. I looked at different religious or spiritual leaders. I read a lot of books with a Buddhist background.

Quote by Julie Christie about books, time

In parallel, we developed the theoretical background for the experiments we had in mind as well as for the optimum performance of the instruments.

Quote by Richard Ernst about mind

Your background and environment is with you for life. No question about that.

Quote by Sean Connery about question, life

I play music - I write my own music, but I play music, just background music really, and just let it happen.

Quote by Anthony Hopkins about music

I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my experience in the financial world invaluable background for writing about white-collar crimes.

Quote by Sara Paretsky about age, heads, criminals, writing, experience, world

I decided I was going to be the first producer to have a manager. And those songs became the background of the first Project album.

Quote by Alan Parsons about heads

I didn't have a normal background I was completely demented from a very early age.

Quote by Bill Paxton about age, olderness

I'm inclined to think that a military background wouldn't hurt anyone.

Quote by William Faulkner about opinion