We are the witnesses to the miracle. We are put here by creation, by God….We’re here to be the audience to the magnificent. It is our job to celebrate.
RAY BRADBURYDon’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.
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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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We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.
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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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Teachers are to inspire; librarians are to fulfill.
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Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled.
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Too late, I found you can’t wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.
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Do what you love and love what you do. Don’t do anything for money. Everything should be for love.
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The important thing is to be in love with something.
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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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If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we’ll become completely dark.
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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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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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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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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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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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