That’s the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.
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.
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Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.
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There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.
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Too late, I found you can’t wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.
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The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance – the idea that anything is possible.
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We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren’t happy. Something’s missing.
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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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A life’s work should be based on love.
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Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.
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The important thing is to be in love with something.
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You’ve been put on the world to love the act of being alive.
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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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Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
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You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
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All education is self-discovery.
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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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