Barry B. Longyear on goal
Barry B. Longyear6 quotes“The goal is not writing. The goal is being a human being writing.”
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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.
Barry B. LongyearBarry B. Longyear I must be very close to what I had to learn to move from fooling around with writing to actually producing professional stories.
Barry B. LongyearBarry B. Longyear 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. LongyearBarry B. Longyear Stories are not about ideas, gimmicks, or places. Stories are about people. People are about feelings!
Barry B. LongyearBarry B. Longyear 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.
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Even with broken wings, she dares to fly. And even with a broken heart, she dares to love.
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Carmen AmadosCarmen Amados Contemplate your own mortality daily, then see how much we must change.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin Poetry is the voice of the soul and the inspiration of the heart.
Teresa PeresTeresa Peres We parted sadly, like children in the street on a pleasant june afternoon.
Iestyn TudorIestyn Tudor And what shall I call you? Yours. In this life, the ones before, and all others thereafter.
Alexandra MichelleAlexandra Michelle If I could go back to a time I’d be with you. And I’d thank you again for almost being the healing to my heart.
Aimee C. HoveyAimee C. Hovey I was a living breathing nightmare and he was my favorite dream catcher.
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I thought in my Nobel Lecture I pointed that I was delighted that the Swedish Academy of Science did not quote anything about my current work right now, because the current work that my group is focusing on is actually both the time resolve.
Ahmed ZewailAhmed Zewail We must not rest until right livelihood is within reach of every human being upon this earth we love and cherish.
AgniveshAgnivesh Plus, I’ll be the goal line guy. If I’m not wearing a boot.
Ahmad BradshawAhmad Bradshaw Embrace suffering, and you transform your relationship with what causes you to suffer, as well as your relationship with suffering itself.
AdyashantiAdyashanti It’s not your end goal that gives life to your required actions, it’s your required actions that give life to your end goal.
AnonymousAnonymous Whether we like it or not, the ultimate goal of every science is to become trivial.
Aharon KatzirAharon Katzir It is good to remember that the goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is to create Christs, not Christians.
AdyashantiAdyashanti We all have a role to play in achieving this goal.
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