You can make yourself happy or miserable – it’s the same amount of effort.
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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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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It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.
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The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.
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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 worry about things. Don’t push. Just do your work and you’ll survive. The important thing is to have a ball, to be joyful, to be loving and to be explosive. Out of that comes everything and you grow.
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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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The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.
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If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.
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Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.
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I don’t need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.
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Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.
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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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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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All education is self-discovery.
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In order to be creative, you don’t have to be original.
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