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.
RAY BRADBURYJump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.
More Ray Bradbury Quotes
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The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.
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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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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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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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Memory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending.
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I don’t believe in government. I hate politics. I’m against it. And I hope that sometime this fall, we can destroy part of our government, and next year destroy even more of it. The less government, the happier I will be.
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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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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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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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Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything.
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If someone tells you to do something for money, tell them to go to hell.
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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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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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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 know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.
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