There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.
RAY BRADBURYLearning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled.
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Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.
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The important thing is to be in love with something.
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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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In order to be creative, you don’t have to be original.
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You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
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If you love people you criticize them, and if you don’t love them you don’t criticize them, you let them go to hell, don’t you? To help any kind of friendship, your marriage, your children, you criticize because you love.
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Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.
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A life’s work should be based on love.
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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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You have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failing but as a wrong address.
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Too late, I found you can’t wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.
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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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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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Creativity is a continual surprise.
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If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we’ll become completely dark.
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