Barry B. Longyear Professions : WriterBorn : May 12, 1942 Browse All Authors Top 4 quotes by Barry B. Longyear Stories are not about ideas, gimmicks, or places. Stories are about people. People are about feelings! Barry B. Longyear feelingspeopleideas The goal is not writing. The goal is being a human being writing. Barry B. Longyear humansgoalwriting 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 writingbookmoving 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 animaladventurechildren Similar Authors Ihab Hassan writer Ingmar Bergman writer Isabella Bird writer Ivan E. Coyote writer Al Feldstein writer Bert Sugar writerAll Authors
