Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation.
Ray BradburyTags: writing writing-craft writing-life
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.
Ray BradburyAnd 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.
Ray BradburyTags: writing-life writing-philosophy
Think of Shakespeare and Melville and you think of thunder, lightning, wind. They all knew the joy of creating in large or small forms, on unlimited or restricted canvases. These are the children of the gods.
Ray BradburyTags: writing writers shakespeare melville
To feed your Muse, then, you should always have been hungry about life since you were a child. If not, it is a little late to start.
Ray BradburyI 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.
Ray BradburyTags: writing writing-craft
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.
Ray BradburyTags: cats creativity ideas
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.
Ray BradburyHe knew what the wind was doing to them, where it was taking them, to all the secret places that were never so secret again in life.
Ray BradburyAllora non v'importa più di nulla?
M'importa tanto, che ho la nausea di tutto.
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