If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we’ll become completely dark.
RAY BRADBURYMemory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending.
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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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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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If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.
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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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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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You’ve got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.
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Write a thousand words a day and in three years you’ll be a writer!
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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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Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything.
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Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.
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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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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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I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
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Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.
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If someone tells you to do something for money, tell them to go to hell.
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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.
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Get rid of those friends of yours who make fun of you and don’t believe in you. And when you leave here tonight, go home, make a phone call and fire them. Anyone that doesn’t believe in you and your future, to hell with them.
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Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
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In order to be creative, you don’t have to be original.
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Sometimes I think I understand everything. Then I regain consciousness.
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Creativity is a continual surprise.
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You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.
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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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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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You knew the sweetness of now, now, TONIGHT! who cares for tomorrow, tomorrow is nothing, yesterday is over and done, tonight live, tonight!
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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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