Barry B. Longyear famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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.
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.
A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
The things that happen on the sea take you beyond yourself, beyond human capability.
We must remember that knowledge of oneâ€™s own deep nature is also simultaneously knowledge of human nature in general.
Creativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught.

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