It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.
RAY BRADBURYYou don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Don’t think about things, just do them; don’t predict them, just make them.
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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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If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.
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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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I don’t need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.
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Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.
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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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