The important thing is to be in love with something.
RAY BRADBURYWe 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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How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.
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I don’t need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.
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Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
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Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it.
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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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Teachers are to inspire; librarians are to fulfill.
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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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That’s the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.
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The local TV news is the greatest danger in your life. It’s all crap.
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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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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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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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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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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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If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.
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