Write a short story every week. It’s not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.
RAY BRADBURYIf 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.
More Ray Bradbury Quotes
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Don’t think about things, just do them; don’t predict them, just make them.
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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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The important thing is to be in love with something.
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We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren’t happy. Something’s missing.
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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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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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I don’t think the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over. And if we don’t take the toys out of their hands, we’re fools.
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Sometimes I think I understand everything. Then I regain consciousness.
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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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You’ve got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.
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Love what you do and do what you love. Don’t listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You do what you want, what you love. Imagination should be the center of your life.
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Write a thousand words a day and in three years you’ll be a writer!
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Television is very dangerous. Because it repeats and repeats and repeats our disasters, instead of our triumphs.
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If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.
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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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