You can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.
RAY BRADBURYIf you did not write every day, the poisons would accumulate and you would begin to die, or act crazy or both-you must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
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Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.
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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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Work is the only answer. I have three rules to live by. One, get your work done. If that doesn’t work, shut up and drink your gin. And when all else fails, run like hell!
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We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren’t happy. Something’s missing.
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If you learn only methods, you’ll be tied to your methods, but if you learn principles you can devise your own methods.
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It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.
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The local TV news is the greatest danger in your life. It’s all crap.
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Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.
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You have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failing but as a wrong address.
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Don’t worry about things. Don’t push. Just do your work and you’ll survive. The important thing is to have a ball, to be joyful, to be loving and to be explosive. Out of that comes everything and you grow.
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Write a thousand words a day and in three years you’ll be a writer!
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Love what you do and do what you love. Don’t listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You do what you want, what you love. Imagination should be the center of your life.
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Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.
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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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Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.
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