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I 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 Bradbury

You can make yourself happy or miserable – it’s the same amount of effort.
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Effort Happiness Misery Yourself
It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.
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Failure Inspirational Word Writing
I’ve learned that by doing things, things get done.
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Learning Myself
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.
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Creativity Enemy Simplicity Thinking Try
Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
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Build Courage Greatness Humor Inspirational Live Risk Way Wings Yourself
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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Deep Life Moments Time
Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything.
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Love Reason Worth
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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Career Friendship Inspirational Life Reading Writing Yourself
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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Children Friendship Hell Help Kind Love Marriage People
Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it.
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Celebration Fun Joy Serious Writing Yourself
An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience.
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Athlete Experience Preparation Quantity Run
The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.
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Book Fools Poet Writing
In order to be creative, you don’t have to be original.
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Creativity Original
How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.
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Creativity Failure Ideas Ourselves Success Work Writing
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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Energy Excitement Ideas
We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.
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Beautiful Inspirational Ourselves Philosophy Quiet Spiritual Writing
That’s the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.
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Animal Creativity Greatness Ideas Secret Yourself
There’s no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.
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Destination Education Library Path Student Yourself
Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled.
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Learning Let Go Life Touch
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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Afraid Darkness Fear Past Shadow
The important thing is to be in love with something.
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Important Life Love
The local TV news is the greatest danger in your life. It’s all crap.
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Danger Greatness Life Stupidity Yourself
We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren’t happy. Something’s missing.
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Happiness Missing Need
You fail only if you stop writing.
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Failure Stop Yourself
Good to evil seems evil
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Deep Evil Goodness One Liner
Don’t worry about things. Don’t push. Just do your work and you’ll survive. The important thing is to have a ball, to be joyful, to be loving and to be explosive. Out of that comes everything and you grow.
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Growth Motivational Survive Work Worry Yourself
Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.
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Effort Growth Independence Inspirational Learning Wings

I 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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I 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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