5 Quotes by Barry B. Longyear

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

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.

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

There is no force as powerful as a promise that insists on being kept.

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