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.
RAY BRADBURYSome 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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Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.
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Teachers are to inspire; librarians are to fulfill.
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Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything.
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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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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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How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.
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I’ve learned that by doing things, things get done.
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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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If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we’ll become completely dark.
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Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.
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You’ve got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.
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We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren’t happy. Something’s missing.
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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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That’s the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.
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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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