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.
RAY BRADBURYWork 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!
More Ray Bradbury Quotes
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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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You’ve got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.
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Television is very dangerous. Because it repeats and repeats and repeats our disasters, instead of our triumphs.
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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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That’s the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.
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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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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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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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Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything.
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You’ve been put on the world to love the act of being alive.
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You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.
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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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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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We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren’t happy. Something’s missing.
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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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