I don’t need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.
RAY BRADBURYI don’t think the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over. And if we don’t take the toys out of their hands, we’re fools.
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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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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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You have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failing but as a wrong address.
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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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Don’t think about things, just do them; don’t predict them, just make them.
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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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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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Write a short story every week. It’s not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.
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You can make yourself happy or miserable – it’s the same amount of effort.
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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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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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Writing 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 don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.
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If someone tells you to do something for money, tell them to go to hell.
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