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Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing Quotes: Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation.
         

Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation.


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You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.



I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.

I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.



Ours is a culture and a time immensely rich in trash as it is in treasures.

Ours is a culture and a time immensely rich in trash as it is in treasures.



That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.



We need our Arts to teach us how to breathe

We need our Arts to teach us how to breathe



You grow ravenous. You run fevers. You know exhilarations. You can't sleep at night, because your beast-creature ideas want out and turn you in your bed. It is a grand way to live.

You grow ravenous. You run fevers. You know exhilarations. You can't sleep at night, because your beast-creature ideas want out and turn you in your bed. It is a grand way to live.



I came on the old and best ways of writing through ignorance and experiment and was startled when truths leaped out of brushes like quail before gunshot.

I came on the old and best ways of writing through ignorance and experiment and was startled when truths leaped out of brushes like quail before gunshot.



So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all.

So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all.



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.

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.



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

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





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A man who examines each subject from a philosophical standpoint cannot neglect them: he has to omit nothing, and state the truth about each topic.

A man who examines each subject from a philosophical standpoint cannot neglect them: he has to omit nothing, and state the truth about each topic.



One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.

One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.



I've been to the Reading festival twice before-as a punter, though I stayed backstage in the hospitality tent!

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If I'm in ya starting five you will never need a sub and I'm never looking down, so I always know what's up.

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Now, being on the cover of Vanity Fair is as important as being in great movies. The lines are very, very blurred.

Now, being on the cover of Vanity Fair is as important as being in great movies. The lines are very, very blurred.



It seems to me a most dreadful thing to go out of the world and not leave one person behind you who is sorry you are gone,' said Anne, shuddering.

It seems to me a most dreadful thing to go out of the world and not leave one person behind you who is sorry you are gone,' said Anne, shuddering.



I pay editors. I never ask friends or colleagues to work for free.

I pay editors. I never ask friends or colleagues to work for free.



She said it had been hijacked shortly after takeoff. By this time, the plane had been in the air - again, I'm presuming that it took off on time - for over an hour.

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Since that day, when people have spoken to me of "genius", I have felt the inside pocket to make sure my wallet's still there.

Since that day, when people have spoken to me of "genius", I have felt the inside pocket to make sure my wallet's still there.



Only one thing’s sadder than remembering you were once free, and that’s forgetting you were once free.

Only one thing’s sadder than remembering you were once free, and that’s forgetting you were once free.




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