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Don't write for money. Write ...

Don't write for money. Write because you love to do something. If you write for money, you won't write anything worth reading.

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When your dawn theater sounds...

When your dawn theater sounds to clear your sinuses: don't delay. Jump. Those voices may be gone before you hit the shower to align your wits. Speed is everything. The 90-mph dash to your machine is a sure cure for life rampant and death most real. Make haste to live. Oh, God, yes. Live. And write. With great haste.

Ray Bradbury 813 quotes

Gardening is the handiest exc...

Gardening is the handiest excuse for being a philosopher. Nobody guesses, nobody accuses, nobody knows, but there you are, Plato in the peonies, Socrates force-growing his own hemlock. A man toting a sack of blood manure across his lawn is kin to Atlas letting the world spin easy on his shoulder.

Ray Bradbury 813 quotes

You have to be very productiv...

You have to be very productive in order to become excellent. You have to go through a poor period and a mediocre period, and then you move into your excellent period. It may be very well be that some of you have done quite a bit of writing already. You maybe ready to move into your good period and your excellent period. But you shouldn't be surprised if it becomes a very long process.

Ray Bradbury 813 quotes

A conglomerate heap of trash,...

A conglomerate heap of trash, that's what I am. But it burns with a high flame.

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See the world. It's more fant...

See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream.

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I sometimes get up at night w...

I sometimes get up at night when I can't sleep and walk down into my library and open one of my books and read a paragraph and say, 'My God, did I write that?

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If you write a hundred short ...

If you write a hundred short stories and they're all bad, that doesn't mean you've failed. You fail only if you stop writing.

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Last night I thought about al...

Last night I thought about all the kerosene I've used in the past ten years. And I thought about books. And for the first time I realized that a man was behind each one of the books. A man had to think them up. A man had to take a long time to put them down on paper. And I'd never even thought that thought before...It took some man a lifetime maybe to put some of his thoughts down, looking around at the world and life, and then I come along in two minutes and boom! it's all over.

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Screenplays are not writing. ...

Screenplays are not writing. They're a fake form of writing. It's a lot of dialogue and very little atmosphere. Very little description. Very little character work. It's very dangerous. You'll never learn to write.

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In my later years I have look...

In my later years I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I've worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.

Ray Bradbury 813 quotes

The history of science fictio...

The history of science fiction started in the caves 20,000 years ago. The ideas on the walls of the cave were problems to be solved. It's problem solving. Primitive scientific knowledge, primitive dreams, primitive blueprinting: to solve problems.

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Every story I've written was ...

Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life.

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When you write - explode - fl...

When you write - explode - fly apart - disintegrate! Then give time enough to think, cut, rework, and rewrite.

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For if we're destroyed, the k...

For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead...We're nothing more than dust jackets for books...so many pages to a person.

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If you have moved over vast t...

If you have moved over vast territories and dared to love silly things, you will have learned even from the most primitive items collected and put aside in your life.

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That's life for you," said Ma...

That's life for you," said MacDunn. "Someone always waiting for someone who never comes home. Always someone loving some thing more than that thing loves them. And after a while you want to destroy whatever that thing is, so it can't hurt you no more.

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He stood breathing, and the m...

He stood breathing, and the more he breathed the land in, the more he was filled up with all the details of the land. He was not empty. There was more than enough here to fill him. There would always be more than enough.

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I have two rules in life - to...

I have two rules in life - to hell with it, whatever it is, and get your work done.

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(...) And metaphors like cats...

(...) And metaphors like cats behind your smile, Each one wound up to purr, each one a pride, Each one a fine gold beast you've hid inside (...)

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