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 BRADBURYWriting is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it.
More Ray Bradbury Quotes
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The important thing is to be in love with something.
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You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
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Memory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending.
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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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You’ve been put on the world to love the act of being alive.
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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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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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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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If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.
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I’ve learned that by doing things, things get done.
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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 is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything.
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I don’t need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.
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I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.
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I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
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You fail only if you stop writing.
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We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?
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Don’t think about things, just do them; don’t predict them, just make them.
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Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.
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Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything.
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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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We 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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Good to evil seems evil
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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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