Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
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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The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance – the idea that anything is possible.
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I don’t need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.
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The years go by. The time, it does fly. Every single second is a moment in time that passes. And it seems like nothing – but when you’re looking back. Well, it amounts to everything.
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In order to be creative, you don’t have to be original.
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You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
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Creativity is a continual surprise.
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The important thing is to be in love with something.
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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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You have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failing but as a wrong address.
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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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Sometimes I think I understand everything. Then I regain consciousness.
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Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything.
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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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You’ve been put on the world to love the act of being alive.
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There 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.
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