It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.
RAY BRADBURYIf 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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You knew the sweetness of now, now, TONIGHT! who cares for tomorrow, tomorrow is nothing, yesterday is over and done, tonight live, tonight!
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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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I’ve learned that by doing things, things get done.
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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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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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You can make yourself happy or miserable – it’s the same amount of effort.
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We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.
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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.
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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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That’s the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.
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You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
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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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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 short story every week. It’s not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.
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Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.
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