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.
RAY BRADBURYJust 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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Don’t think about things, just do them; don’t predict them, just make them.
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Good to evil seems evil
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You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
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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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If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you’ll never learn.
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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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You can make yourself happy or miserable – it’s the same amount of effort.
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Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.
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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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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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It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.
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You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.
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You’ve got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.
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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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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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There’s no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.
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You fail only if you stop writing.
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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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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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Work is the only answer. I have three rules to live by. One, get your work done. If that doesn’t work, shut up and drink your gin. And when all else fails, run like hell!
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You’ve been put on the world to love the act of being alive.
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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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Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.
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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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Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I’m one of them.
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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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