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.
RAY BRADBURYEvery 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.
RAY BRADBURYWe are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.
RAY BRADBURYDo what you love and love what you do. Don’t do anything for money. Everything should be for love.
RAY BRADBURYYou can make yourself happy or miserable – it’s the same amount of effort.
RAY BRADBURYTreasure this day and Treasure yourself, truly, neither will ever happen again.
RAY BRADBURYMemory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending.
RAY BRADBURYWrite a thousand words a day and in three years you’ll be a writer!
RAY BRADBURYWork 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!
RAY BRADBURYWe have everything we need to be happy, but we aren’t happy. Something’s missing.
RAY BRADBURYThere was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves.
RAY BRADBURYLove. 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.
RAY BRADBURYI 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 BRADBURYYou’ve been put on the world to love the act of being alive.
RAY BRADBURYYou have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.
RAY BRADBURYIf someone tells you to do something for money, tell them to go to hell.
RAY BRADBURYWriting is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it.
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