“John Barnes is incredibly variable. Pete's Rule (Never buy a Barnes with sodomy in it) is a good one but unfortunately the publisher does not put that kind of stuff on the cover.”

— James Nicoll

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Canadian fiction reviewer 1961

Ken Kern American writer

p, 125
The Owner-Built Homestead (1977)

“It will not always be summer, build barns.”

Hesiod book Works and Days

Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 503.

“You are the one. Solid the spaces lean on, envious. You are the baby in the barn.”

Sylvia Plath Ariel

Source: Ariel

“A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.”

Sam Rayburn (1882–1961) lawmaker from Bonham, Texas

Said during filmed conversation with reporters (c. 1953); reported in "Speak, Mister Speaker" (1978), p. 138.

“Do not put your work off till to-morrow and the day after; for a sluggish worker does not fill his barn, nor one who puts off his work: industry makes work go well, but a man who puts off work is always at hand-grips with ruin.”

Hesiod book Works and Days

Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 410.

“.. because I live in Paris, but just outside Paris at the start of Yonne, I have a barn, a very, very big barn.... right near Auxerre, a barn forty meters long, six meters wide and fifteen meters high, and I do all my work there.. it's like a large street, you know.”

Karel Appel (1921–2006) Dutch painter, sculptor, and poet

describing the location outside Paris, where he makes his large relief compositions
Karel Appel defines his painting', interview 1968

“Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.”

Robert Jordan The Fires of Heaven

Lini
(15 October 1993)
Source: The Fires of Heaven

“It was so much fun the other day. Dad took out all of our old toys that he found in the old barn. Now Estelle is playing with the old stuff and she loves it.”

Princess Madeleine, Duchess of Hälsingland and Gästrikland (1982) Swedish princess

royalcorrespondent.com interview http://royalcorrespondent.com/2013/07/15/we-really-are-a-team-says-princess-madeleine-in-a-new-interview/

“You burn barns. I don't burn barns. There's this glaring difference, and to me, rather than say which of us is strange, first of all I'd like to clear up just what that difference is.”

Haruki Murakami book Barn Burning

Barn Burning (short story) in The Elephant Vanishes

“Garages, barns and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.”

Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter

Source: The Favorite Game

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