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 BRADBURYIf you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.
More Ray Bradbury Quotes
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The local TV news is the greatest danger in your life. It’s all crap.
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If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.
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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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Write a thousand words a day and in three years you’ll be a writer!
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It’s not going to do any good to land on Mars if we’re stupid.
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Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled.
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Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.
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Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.
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A life’s work should be based on love.
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I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.
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I don’t believe in government. I hate politics. I’m against it. And I hope that sometime this fall, we can destroy part of our government, and next year destroy even more of it. The less government, the happier I will be.
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All education is self-discovery.
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Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I’m borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.
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Creativity is a continual surprise.
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We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?
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