It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.
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.
More Ray Bradbury Quotes
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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’ve learned that by doing things, things get done.
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I don’t need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.
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If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you’ll never learn.
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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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If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.
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I don’t believe in government. I hate politics. I’m against it. And I hope that sometime this fall, we can destroy part of our government, and next year destroy even more of it. The less government, the happier I will be.
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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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Good to evil seems evil
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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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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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Creativity is a continual surprise.
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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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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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That’s the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.
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