I do a first draft as passionately and as quickly as I can. I believe a story is valid only when it’s immediate and passionate, when it dances out of your subconscious. If you interfere in any way, you destroy it.
RAY BRADBURYI do a first draft as passionately and as quickly as I can. I believe a story is valid only when it’s immediate and passionate, when it dances out of your subconscious. If you interfere in any way, you destroy it.
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Do what you love and love what you do. Don’t do anything for money. Everything should be for love.
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Get rid of those friends of yours who make fun of you and don’t believe in you. And when you leave here tonight, go home, make a phone call and fire them. Anyone that doesn’t believe in you and your future, to hell with them.
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Good to evil seems evil
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There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.
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If someone tells you to do something for money, tell them to go to hell.
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You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
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You can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.
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We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.
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That’s the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.
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Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.
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I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
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I don’t need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.
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You’ve got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.
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If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.
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I don’t think the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over. And if we don’t take the toys out of their hands, we’re fools.
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