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.
RAY BRADBURYI have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.
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Memory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending.
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The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance – the idea that anything is possible.
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Creativity is a continual surprise.
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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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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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A life’s work should be based on love.
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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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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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Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.
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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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Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.
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If someone tells you to do something for money, tell them to go to hell.
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Write a short story every week. It’s not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.
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There’s no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.
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It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.
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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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Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.
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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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Do what you love and love what you do. Don’t do anything for money. Everything should be for 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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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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The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.
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If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.
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You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
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I don’t believe in government. I hate politics. I’m against it. And I hope that sometime this fall, we can destroy part of our government, and next year destroy even more of it. The less government, the happier I will be.
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I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
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