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 BRADBURYLooking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.
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We are the witnesses to the miracle. We are put here by creation, by God….We’re here to be the audience to the magnificent. It is our job to celebrate.
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Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.
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Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.
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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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In order to be creative, you don’t have to be original.
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You can make yourself happy or miserable – it’s the same amount of effort.
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Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.
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Treasure this day and Treasure yourself, truly, neither will ever happen again.
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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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That’s the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.
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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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You fail only if you stop writing.
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Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.
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Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything.
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If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we’ll become completely dark.
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