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 BRADBURYLearning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled.
More Ray Bradbury Quotes
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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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How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.
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Sometimes I think I understand everything. Then I regain consciousness.
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There’s no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.
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If someone tells you to do something for money, tell them to go to hell.
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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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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 important thing is to be in love with something.
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Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
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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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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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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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Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.
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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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Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it.
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