Write a short story every week. It’s not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.
RAY BRADBURYIdeas 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.
More Ray Bradbury Quotes
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Write a thousand words a day and in three years you’ll be a writer!
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I’ve learned that by doing things, things get done.
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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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The important thing is to be in love with something.
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Treasure this day and Treasure yourself, truly, neither will ever happen again.
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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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Television is very dangerous. Because it repeats and repeats and repeats our disasters, instead of our triumphs.
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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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How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.
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Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.
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If you did not write every day, the poisons would accumulate and you would begin to die, or act crazy or both-you must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
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It’s not going to do any good to land on Mars if we’re stupid.
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It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.
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Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.
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You can make yourself happy or miserable – it’s the same amount of effort.
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Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled.
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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 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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There’s no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.
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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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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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Good to evil seems evil
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If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.
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Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction.
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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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