Barry B. Longyear quotes

“The goal is not writing. The goal is being a human being writing.”
-- Barry B. Longyear

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“Stories are not about ideas, gimmicks, or places. Stories are about people. People are about feelings!”
-- Barry B. Longyear

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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

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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

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“He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His portable typewriter was snugged in there and papers were spread along the top of the bookcase on either side of it. He used a reading board for longhand writing.”

Source : A. E. Hotchner (2009). “Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir”, p.14, Da Capo Press

“It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.”

“Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.”

“I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.”

“I've got the 30 drive right now. You turn 30, I don't know, life is exciting again; thirties is when you've got it all figured out. You start reaching some of your goals, and achieving some great things.”

“No mere human can stand in a fire and not be consumed.”

Source : "Possession". www.imdb.com. 2002.

“A movie is about human beings, about humanity.”

“The things that happen on the sea take you beyond yourself, beyond human capability.”

Source : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.179, Thomas Nelson Inc

“We must remember that knowledge of one’s own deep nature is also simultaneously knowledge of human nature in general.”

“Creativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught.”

Source : Interview with Brook Larmer, hbr.org. April 2012.