Who are your friends? Do they believe in you? Or did they stunt your growth with ridicule and disbelief? If the latter, you haven’t any friends. Go find some. ~ Ray Bradbury
fiction writing
Ray Bradbury’s Writing Wisdom #10
We can learn from every man or woman or child around us when, we can learn from every man or woman or child around us when, touched and moved, they tell us something they loved or hated this day, Yesterday, or some other day long past. At a given moment, the fuse, after sputtering wetly, flares, and the fireworks begin. ~ Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury’s Writing Wisdom #8
Be certain of this: when honest love speaks, went true admiration begins, when excitement rises, when hate curls like smoke, you need never doubt that creativity will stay with you for a lifetime. ~ Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury’s Writing Wisdom #7
When people ask me where I get my ideas, I laugh. How strange, we’re so busy looking out, to find ways and means, we forget to look in. ~ Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury’s Writing Wisdom #5
Ideas lie everywhere, like apples fallen and melting in the grass for lack of wayfaring strangers with an eye and a tongue for beauty, whether absurd, horrific, or genteel. ~ Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury’s Writing Wisdom #3
The first thing every writer should be is excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms. ~ Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury’s Writing Wisdom #2
If I were asked to name the most important items in a writer’s make-up, the things that shape his material and rush him where he wants to go, I could only warn him to look to his zest, see to his gusto. ~ Ray Bradbury
11 Writing Tips from Henry Miller Tip 11
Tip 11: Write first and always. Painting, music, friends, cinema, all these come afterwards.
11 Writing Tips from Henry Miller Tip 10
Tip 10: Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing.
11 Writing Tips from Henry Miller Tip 9
Tip 9: Discard the Program when you feel like it–but go back to it the next day. Concentrate. Narrow down. Exclude.
