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.
RAY BRADBURYLove is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything.
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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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Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.
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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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You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
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Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything.
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You fail only if you stop writing.
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Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it.
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The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.
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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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If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you’ll never learn.
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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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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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Write a short story every week. It’s not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.
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Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.
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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 someone tells you to do something for money, tell them to go to hell.
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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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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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Love what you do and do what you love. Don’t listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You do what you want, what you love. Imagination should be the center of your life.
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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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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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There’s no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.
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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’ve learned that by doing things, things get done.
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Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.
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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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