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It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.

Ray Bradbury

I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.
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Hard Work Love Myself Practice Time True Yourself
You can make yourself happy or miserable – it’s the same amount of effort.
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Effort Happiness Misery Yourself
We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?
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Alone Important Need Reality
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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Believe Dance Destroy Passionate Quick Story 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
Do what you love and love what you do. Don’t do anything for money. Everything should be for love.
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Love Money Yourself
Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction.
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Accomplishment Dream Fiction History Man Science Yourself
Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.
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Life Love Time Yourself
The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.
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Believe Ideas Religion Room Stop Thinking Yourself
I’ve learned that by doing things, things get done.
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Learning Myself
I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
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Avoid Future Myself Try
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
We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren’t happy. Something’s missing.
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Happiness Missing Need
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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Book Burn People Run World
In order to be creative, you don’t have to be original.
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Creativity Original
If you did not write every day, the poisons would accumulate and you would begin to die, or act crazy or both-you must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
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Beginning Crazy Death Destroy Poison Reality Writing

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