That’s the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.
RAY BRADBURYI’ve learned that by doing things, things get done.
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If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.
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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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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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An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience.
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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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The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance – the idea that anything is possible.
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I 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 have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.
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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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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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Treasure this day and Treasure yourself, truly, neither will ever happen again.
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If someone tells you to do something for money, tell them to go to hell.
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Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.
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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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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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