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 BRADBURYIf you learn only methods, you’ll be tied to your methods, but if you learn principles you can devise your own methods.
More Ray Bradbury Quotes
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We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.
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Memory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending.
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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.
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Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
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If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we’ll become completely dark.
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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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I don’t need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.
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Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.
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Good to evil seems evil
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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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It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.
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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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If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.
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If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.
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