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.
RAY BRADBURYIf you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you’ll never learn.
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If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.
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Write a short story every week. It’s not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.
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You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
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You have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failing but as a wrong address.
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There was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves.
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It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.
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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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We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren’t happy. Something’s missing.
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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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That’s the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.
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All education is self-discovery.
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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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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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You can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.
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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 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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Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I’m one of them.
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Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything.
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Sometimes I think I understand everything. Then I regain consciousness.
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Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything.
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Creativity is a continual surprise.
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Get 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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In order to be creative, you don’t have to be original.
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I don’t need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.
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If someone tells you to do something for money, tell them to go to hell.
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