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?
RAY BRADBURYWrite a short story every week. It’s not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.
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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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Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I’m one of them.
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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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There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.
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Memory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending.
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A life’s work should be based on love.
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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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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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If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.
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If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.
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You can’t try to do things; you simply must do 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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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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Write a short story every week. It’s not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.
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Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.
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