If you did not write every day, the poisons would accumulate and you would begin to die, or act crazy or both-you must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
RAY BRADBURYWork is the only answer. I have three rules to live by. One, get your work done. If that doesn’t work, shut up and drink your gin. And when all else fails, run like hell!
More Ray Bradbury Quotes
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I don’t need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.
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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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The local TV news is the greatest danger in your life. It’s all crap.
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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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Don’t worry about things. Don’t push. Just do your work and you’ll survive. The important thing is to have a ball, to be joyful, to be loving and to be explosive. Out of that comes everything and you grow.
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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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You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.
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You’ve been put on the world to love the act of being alive.
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I don’t think the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over. And if we don’t take the toys out of their hands, we’re fools.
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Write a thousand words a day and in three years you’ll be a writer!
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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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Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it.
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Good to evil seems evil
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You can make yourself happy or miserable – it’s the same amount of effort.
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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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