Barry B. Longyear Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Barry B. Longyear
As a child I used to watch clouds, and in them, see faces, castles, animals, dragons, and giants. It was a world of escape
fantasy; something to inject wonder and adventure into the mundane, regulated life of a middle-class boy leading a middle-class life. — Barry B. Longyear
Sharks don't kill because they're poor, criminal, insane, or repressed. A shark kills because it's a shark. — Barry B. Longyear
About a year after (my stories began being published), magazine editor George Scithers, suggested to me that since I was so new at being published, I must be very close to what I had to learn to move from fooling around with writing to actually producing professional stories. There are a lot of aspiring writers out there who would like to know just that. Write that book.SFWW-I is that book. It's the book I was looking for when I first started writing fiction. — Barry B. Longyear
The goal is not writing. The goal is being a human being writing. — Barry B. Longyear
Stories are not about ideas, gimmicks, or places. Stories are about people. People are about feelings! — Barry B. Longyear