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.
RAY BRADBURYI 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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Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it.
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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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It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.
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If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.
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The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.
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Creativity is a continual surprise.
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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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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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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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In order to be creative, you don’t have to be original.
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We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren’t happy. Something’s missing.
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You can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.
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You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
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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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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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