You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
RAY BRADBURYHow 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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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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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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Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled.
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It’s not going to do any good to land on Mars if we’re stupid.
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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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You’ve got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.
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You can make yourself happy or miserable – it’s the same amount of effort.
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Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction.
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The years go by. The time, it does fly. Every single second is a moment in time that passes. And it seems like nothing – but when you’re looking back. Well, it amounts to everything.
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Don’t think about things, just do them; don’t predict them, just make them.
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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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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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I don’t need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.
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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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