If you love people you criticize them, and if you don’t love them you don’t criticize them, you let them go to hell, don’t you? To help any kind of friendship, your marriage, your children, you criticize because you love.
RAY BRADBURYDon’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.
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Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.
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Treasure this day and Treasure yourself, truly, neither will ever happen again.
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We are the witnesses to the miracle. We are put here by creation, by God….We’re here to be the audience to the magnificent. It is our job to celebrate.
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I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
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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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We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren’t happy. Something’s missing.
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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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Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.
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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.
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You’ve got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.
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Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it.
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Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything.
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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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Too late, I found you can’t wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.
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Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.
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