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I was one of Them: the Strange Ones. The Funny People. The Odd Tribes of autograph collectors and ph...
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If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; gi...
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Stuff your eyes with wonder . . . live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's m...
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Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I s...
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Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's ...
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It's lack that gives us inspiration. It's not fullness.
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If you want to be a good writer, be the best writer in the world. That's what I've done.
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All my stories are like the Greek and Roman myths, and the Egyptian myths, and the Old and New Testa...
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If you did not write every day, the poisons would accumulate and you would begin to die, or act craz...
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We all are rich and ignore the buried fact of accumulated wisdom.
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Through neglect, ignorance, or inability, the new intellectual Borgias cram hairballs down our throa...
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What is the greatest reward a writer can have? Isn't it that day when someone rushes up to you, his ...
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It is a lie to write in such way as to be rewarded by fame offered you by some snobbish quasi-litera...
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Who are your friends? Do they believe in you? Or do they stunt your growth with ridicule and disbeli...
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Think of Shakespeare and Melville and you think of thunder, lightning, wind. They all knew the joy o...
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This afternoon, burn down the house. Tomorrow, pour critical water upon the simmering coals. Time en...
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I came on the old and best ways of writing through ignorance and experiment and was startled when tr...
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We never sit anything out. We are cups, quietly and constantly being filled. The trick is knowing ho...
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And metaphors like cats behind your smile,
Each one wound up to purr,
each one a pride, RAY BRADBURY
We need our Arts to teach us how to breathe
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Now that I have you thoroughly confused, let me pause to hear your own dismayed cry.
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Read poetry every day of your life. Poetry is good because it flexes muscles you don’t use often e...
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In your reading, find books to improve your color sense, your sense of shape and size in the world.
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Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation.
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We have our Arts so we won't die of Truth
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We must take arms each and every day, perhaps knowing that the battle cannot be entirely won, but fi...
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Write. Don't think. Relax.
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And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and th...
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What are the best things and the worst things in your life, and when are you going to get around to ...
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Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to i...
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You grow ravenous. You run fevers. You know exhilarations. You can't sleep at night, because your be...
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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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There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit ma...
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Where would you like to go, what would you really like to do with your life?

See Istanbu...
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Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land? I loved to smell them wh...
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You'll be found, your nickels, dimes and Indian-heads fused by electroplating. Abe Lincolns melted i...
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There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.
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You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like...
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Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's...
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You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers alwa...
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Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.
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Orwell was dealing with communism and his disillusionment with communism in Russia and what he saw t...
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Sunsets are loved because they vanish.

Flowers are loved because they go.

The ...
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Why love the woman who is your wife? Her nose breathes in the air of a world that I know; therefore ...
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Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.
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Sunsets we always liked because they only happen once and go away."
"But, Lena, that's sad." RAY BRADBURY
No matter how hard you try to be what you once were, you can only be what you are here and now.
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I often wonder if God recognizes His own son the way we've dressed him up, or is it dressed him down...
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The things that you do should be things that you love, and things that you love should be things tha...
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I am madness maddened when it comes to books, writers, and the great granary silos where their wits ...
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When I was a boy in the midwest I used to go out and look at the stars at night and wonder about the...
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There was a silly damn bird called a phoenix back before Christ, every few hundred years he built a ...
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Le cose che voi cercate, Montag, sono su questa terra, ma il solo modo per cui l’uomo medio potrà...
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Melt all the guns, I thought, break the knives, burn the guillotines-and the malicious will still wr...
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Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind ...
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First you jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down.
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I have two rules in life - to hell with it, whatever it is, and get your work done.
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Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The word is ...
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Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. ...
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A good night sleep, or a ten minute bawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, i...
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And when he died, I suddenly realized I wasn’t crying for him at all, but for the things he did. I...
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I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't hav...
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If you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned ...
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One day many years ago a man walked along and stood in the sound of the ocean on a cold sunless shor...
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Millions of students now, in all the schools of America, are reading science fiction and especially,...
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We've gotta become the Martians. I'm a Martian - I tell you to become Martians. And we'v...
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I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.
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That's the wonderful thing about man; he never gets so discouraged or disgusted that he gives up doi...
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The home environment can undo a lot you try to do at school.
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There were only the great diamonds and sapphires and emerald mists and velvet inks of space, with Go...
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Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born tha...
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Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow hi...
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The average TV commercial of sixty seconds has one hundred and twenty half-second clips in it, or on...
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If we listened to our intellect we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd ne...
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Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow hi...
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Impossible; for how many people did you know who refracted your own light to you?
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Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.
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You can't learn to write in college. It's a very bad place for writers because the teachers ...
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You fail only if you stop writing
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Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious...
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