Write a thousand words a day and in three years you’ll be a writer!
RAY BRADBURYGet 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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You fail only if you stop writing.
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I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.
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You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.
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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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We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren’t happy. Something’s missing.
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Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.
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Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.
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It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.
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Television is very dangerous. Because it repeats and repeats and repeats our disasters, instead of our triumphs.
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There’s no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.
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Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.
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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 knew the sweetness of now, now, TONIGHT! who cares for tomorrow, tomorrow is nothing, yesterday is over and done, tonight live, tonight!
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I’ve learned that by doing things, things get done.
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Don’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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