Sometimes I think I understand everything. Then I regain consciousness.
RAY BRADBURYEvery 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.
More Ray Bradbury Quotes
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Good to evil seems evil
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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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You fail only if you stop writing.
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You can make yourself happy or miserable – it’s the same amount of effort.
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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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You’ve got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.
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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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Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.
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Creativity is a continual surprise.
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A life’s work should be based on love.
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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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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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How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.
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We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren’t happy. Something’s missing.
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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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