Barry B. Longyear Quotes

• The goal is not writing. The goal is being a human being writing.

  Barry B. Longyear

  Writing, Goal, Humans

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• Stories are not about ideas, gimmicks, or places. Stories are about people. People are about feelings!

  Barry B. Longyear

  Ideas, People, Feelings

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• 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

  Moving, Book, Writing

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• 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

  Children, Adventure, Animal

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