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.
RAY BRADBURYWe are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.
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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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The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.
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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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Creativity is a continual surprise.
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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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Teachers are to inspire; librarians are to fulfill.
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You’ve been put on the world to love the act of being alive.
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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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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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Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.
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If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.
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We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.
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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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You fail only if you stop writing.
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Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything.
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It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.
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The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance – the idea that anything is possible.
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We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren’t happy. Something’s missing.
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If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.
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You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
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Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.
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The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.
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Write a thousand words a day and in three years you’ll be a writer!
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If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.
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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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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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