Memory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending.
RAY BRADBURYLove. 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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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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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.
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You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
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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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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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An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience.
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It’s not going to do any good to land on Mars if we’re stupid.
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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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Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.
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You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
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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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Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.
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How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.
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Creativity is a continual surprise.
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