Barry Longyear Quotes

#1. You see a guy, is what you see. Only God got distracted before he could slap a dick on me and went on to the next in line.

Stephen King

#2. The weight of wait.

Cameron Conaway

#3. Sharks don't kill because they're poor, criminal, insane, or repressed. A shark kills because it's a shark.

Barry B. Longyear

#4. Living by the beach means feeling guilty about never going to the beach.

Dov Davidoff

#5. 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

#6. Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#7. There is something inhuman and vaguely pornographic about statistics ... Pornography, on the other hand, with its loosely bound sequences of storyless sexual couplings often has the feel of a statistical survey.

John Allen Paulos

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

Barry B. Longyear

#9. I call the age we are entering the creative age because the key factor propelling us forward is the rise of creativity as the primary mover of our economy.

Richard Florida

#10. Life is like a sewer-you only get out of it what you put into it.

Barry B. Longyear

#11. It was great to play for a live audience on a stage.

John Lloyd Young

#12. The goal is not writing. The goal is being a human being writing.

Barry B. Longyear

#13. We need to start a new philisophical movement: messessentialism instead of existentialism: For those who revel in the essential mess that is life.

Jandy Nelson