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.
RAY BRADBURYThat’s the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.
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I’ve learned that by doing things, things get done.
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Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled.
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Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.
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If you did not write every day, the poisons would accumulate and you would begin to die, or act crazy or both-you must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
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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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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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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’s not going to do any good to land on Mars if we’re stupid.
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An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience.
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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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In order to be creative, you don’t have to be original.
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The important thing is to be in love with something.
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Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.
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Treasure this day and Treasure yourself, truly, neither will ever happen again.
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There’s no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.
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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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Creativity is a continual surprise.
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Love what you do and do what you love. Don’t listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You do what you want, what you love. Imagination should be the center of your life.
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You’ve got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.
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The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.
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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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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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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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I don’t believe in government. I hate politics. I’m against it. And I hope that sometime this fall, we can destroy part of our government, and next year destroy even more of it. The less government, the happier I will be.
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If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you’ll never learn.
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Write a short story every week. It’s not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.
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