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.
RAY BRADBURYLove. 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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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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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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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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An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience.
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It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.
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Creativity is a continual surprise.
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I 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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You’ve been put on the world to love the act of being alive.
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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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Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.
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Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.
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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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Memory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending.
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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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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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Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything.
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All education is self-discovery.
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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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Sometimes I think I understand everything. Then I regain consciousness.
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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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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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There’s no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.
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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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Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled.
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Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.
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