It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.
RAY BRADBURYIf someone tells you to do something for money, tell them to go to hell.
More Ray Bradbury Quotes
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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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I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
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Teachers are to inspire; librarians are to fulfill.
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Creativity is a continual surprise.
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If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.
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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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Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything.
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I don’t need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.
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Sometimes I think I understand everything. Then I regain consciousness.
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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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That’s the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.
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You have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failing but as a wrong address.
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Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.
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Work is the only answer. I have three rules to live by. One, get your work done. If that doesn’t work, shut up and drink your gin. And when all else fails, run like hell!
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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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Treasure this day and Treasure yourself, truly, neither will ever happen again.
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You fail only if you stop writing.
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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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Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your 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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You’ve been put on the world to love the act of being alive.
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The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.
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Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.
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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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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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