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Ray Bradbury Author

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"I am a dedicated madman, and that becomes its own training. If you can't resist, if the typewriter is like candy to you, you train yourself for a lifetime. Every single day of your life, some wild new thing to be done. You write to please yourself. You write for the joy of writing. Then your public reads you and it begins to gather around your selling a potato peeler in an alley, you know. The enthusiasm, the joy itself draws me. So that means every day of my life I've written. When the joy stops, I'll stop writing."

Writing Mean Typewriters

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Ray Bradbury Author

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"You either have an imaginative mind or you don't. All of my writing is God-given. I don't write my stories - they write themselves."

Writing Mind Stories

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Ray Bradbury Author

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"Lone at night, when I was twelve years old, I looked at the planet Mars and I said, 'Take me home!' And the planet Mars took me home, and I never came back. So I've written every day in the last 75 years. I've never stopped writing."

Writing Home Night

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Ray Bradbury Author

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"There are certain kinds of people who write science fiction. I think a lot of us married late. A lot of us are mama's boys. I lived at home until I was 27. But most of the writers I know in any field, especially science fiction, grew up late. They're so interested in doing what they do and in their science, they don't think about other things."

Thinking Writing Home

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Ray Bradbury Author

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"Kids love me because I write stories that tell them about their capacity for evil. I'm one of the few writers who lets you cleanse yourself that way."

Writing Kids Evil

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Ray Bradbury Author

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"I've never worked a day in my life. The joy of writing has propelled me from day to day and year to year. I want you to envy me, my joy. Get out of here tonight and say: 'Am I being joyful?' And if you've got a writer's block, you can cure it this evening by stopping whatever you're writing and doing something else. You picked the wrong subject."

Writing Years Block

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Ray Bradbury Author

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"I never consciously place symbolism in my writing. That would be a self-conscious exercise and self-consciousness is defeating to any creative act. Better to get the subconscious to do the work for you, and get out of the way. The best symbolism is always unsuspected and natural. During a lifetime, one saves up information which collects itself around centers in the mind; these automatically become symbols on a subliminal level and need only be summoned in the heat of writing."

Writing Self Exercise

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Ray Bradbury Author

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"It was a great place to write a novel about book burning, in the library basement."

Writing Book Library

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Ray Bradbury Author

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"I started writing every day. I never stopped."

Writing Writing Every Day

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Ray Bradbury Author

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"Everything of mine is permeated with my love of ideas-both big and small. It doesn't matter what it is, as long as it grabs me and holds me, facinates me. And then I'll run out and something about it... I write for fun."

Writing Running Fun

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Ray Bradbury Author

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"I decided that was the greatest idea I had ever heard. I started writing every day. I never stopped."

Writing Ideas Heard

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Ray Bradbury Author

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"I write all of my novels and stories, as you have seen, in a great surge of delightful passion. Only recently, glancing at the novel, I realized that Montag is named after a paper manufacturing company. And Faber, of course, is a maker of pencils! What a sly thing my subconscious was, to name them thus. And not tell me!"

Writing Names Passion

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Ray Bradbury Author

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"Write. Don't think. Relax."

Thinking Writing Relax

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Ray Bradbury Author

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"Not to write, for many of us, is to die. We must take ares each and every day, perhaps knowing that the battle cannot be entirely won, but fight we must, if only a gentle bout. The smallest effort to win means, at the end of each day, a sort of victory."

Writing Mean Fighting

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Ray Bradbury Author

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"The real fear isn't rejection, but that there won't be enough time in your life to write all the stories that you have in you."

Writing Real Rejection

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Vladimir Nabokov Novelist

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"Readers are not sheep, and not every pen tempts them."

Writing Sheep Reader

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Vladimir Nabokov Novelist

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"The pleasures of writing correspond exactly to the pleasures of reading"

Writing Reading Pleasure

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Vladimir Nabokov Novelist

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"Even while writing his book, he had become painfully aware how little he knew his own planet while attempting to piece together another one from jagged bits filched from deranged brains."

Writing Book Brain

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Vladimir Nabokov Novelist

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"It was an interesting thing to do. Why did I write any of my books, after all? For the sake of the pleasure, for the sake of the difficulty. I have no social purpose, no moral message; I've no general ideas to exploit, I just like composing riddles with elegant solutions."

Writing Book Ideas

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Vladimir Nabokov Novelist

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"I do not begin my novel at the beginning, I do not reach chapter three before I reach chapter four, I do not go dutifully from one page to the next, in consecutive order; no, I pick out a bit here and a bit there, till I have filled all the gaps on paper. This is why I like writing my stories and novels on index cards, numbering them later when the whole set is complete. Every card is rewritten many times."

Writing Order Three

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