In order to be creative, you don’t have to be original.
RAY BRADBURYYou’ve been put on the world to love the act of being alive.
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I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
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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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You fail only if you stop writing.
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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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Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.
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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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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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You have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failing but as a wrong address.
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Memory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending.
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Write a thousand words a day and in three years you’ll be a writer!
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Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.
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Write a short story every week. It’s not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.
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If you love people you criticize them, and if you don’t love them you don’t criticize them, you let them go to hell, don’t you? To help any kind of friendship, your marriage, your children, you criticize because you love.
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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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Ideas 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.
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Sometimes I think I understand everything. Then I regain consciousness.
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If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you’ll never learn.
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You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
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It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.
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Teachers are to inspire; librarians are to fulfill.
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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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Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.
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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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You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.
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An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience.
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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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