Writing

Ray Bradbury Author

Writing

"Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it."

Writing Fun Joy

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Ray Bradbury Author

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"Write a thousand words a day and in three years you'll be a writer!"

Writing Years Poetry

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Ray Bradbury Author

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"If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it."

Writing Groove Feudalism

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Ray Bradbury Author

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"I love writing, it's the center of my life. If you don't love what you do, you'd better find something else to love. Otherwise, you don't have a reason for living."

Writing Ifs Reason

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Ray Bradbury Author

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"I want your loves to be multiple. I don't want you to be a snob about anything. Anything you love, you do it."

Writing Want Love You

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Ray Bradbury Author

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

Writing Reading Worth Reading

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Ray Bradbury Author

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"When I graduated from high school I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library 3 days a week for 10 years."

Writing School Reading

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Ray Bradbury Author

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"And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is a gift and a privilege, not a right."

Writing Doe Alive

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Ray Bradbury Author

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"First, find out what your hero wants, then just follow him."

Writing Want Hero

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Ray Bradbury Author

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"How to feel your way toward something honest, hidden under the trapdoor on the top of your skull."

Writing Way Skulls

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Ray Bradbury Author

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"My characters talk to one another, and when it reaches a certain pitch of excitement I jump out of bed and run and trap them before they are gone."

Writing Character Running

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Ray Bradbury Author

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"You can't learn to write that way - by writing directly for the screen. Wait until you're 30. But in the meantime write 200 short stories. You've got to learn how to write!"

Writing Stories Waiting

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Ray Bradbury Author

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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-literary groups in the intellectual gazettes."

Writing Lying Intellectual

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Ray Bradbury Author

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"The faster you blurt, the more swiftly you write, the more honest you are."

Writing Honest Faster

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Ray Bradbury Author

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"We all are rich and ignore the buried fact of accumulated wisdom."

Writing Facts Rich

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Vladimir Nabokov Novelist

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"Between the wolf in the tall grass and the wolf in the tall story there is a shimmering go-between. That go-between, that prism, is the art of literature."

Writing Art Stories

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Vladimir Nabokov Novelist

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"Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash."

Writing Book Ideas

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Vladimir Nabokov Novelist

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"There is the first satisfaction of arranging it on a bit of paper; after many, many false tries, false moves, finally you have the sentence you recognize as the one you are looking for."

Writing Trying Moving

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Vladimir Nabokov Novelist

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"Literature was not born the day when a boy crying "wolf, wolf" came running out of the Neanderthal valley with a big gray wolf at his heels; literature was born on the day when a boy came crying "wolf, wolf" and there was no wolf behind him."

Writing Running Boys

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Vladimir Nabokov Novelist

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"No writer in a free country should be expected to bother about the exact demarcation between the sensuous and the sensual; this is preposterous; I can only admire but cannot emulate the accuracy of judgment of those who pose the fair young mammals photographed in magazines where the general neckline is just low enough to provoke a past master's chuckle and just high enough not to make a postmaster frown."

Writing Country Past

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