Don’t think about things, just do them; don’t predict them, just make them.
RAY BRADBURYWriting is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it.
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If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.
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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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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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Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it.
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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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Creativity is a continual surprise.
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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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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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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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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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Sometimes I think I understand everything. Then I regain consciousness.
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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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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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It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.
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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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