In order to be creative, you don’t have to be original.
RAY BRADBURYIf 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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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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Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.
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Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything.
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I don’t need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.
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Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I’m borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.
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You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
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We are the witnesses to the miracle. We are put here by creation, by God….We’re here to be the audience to the magnificent. It is our job to celebrate.
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Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything.
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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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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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Creativity is a continual surprise.
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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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Get rid of those friends of yours who make fun of you and don’t believe in you. And when you leave here tonight, go home, make a phone call and fire them. Anyone that doesn’t believe in you and your future, to hell with them.
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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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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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You fail only if you stop writing.
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Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.
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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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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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The local TV news is the greatest danger in your life. It’s all crap.
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Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction.
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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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The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance – the idea that anything is possible.
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If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we’ll become completely dark.
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You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
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