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“When you write – explode – fly apart – disintegrate! Then give time enough to think, cut, rework, and rewrite.”

~ Ray Bradbury

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“Don’t let people interfere with you. Boot ’em out, turn off the phone, hide away, get it done. If you carry a short story over to the next day you may overnight intellectualize something about it and try to make it too fancy, try to please someone.”

“Don’t write for money. Write because you love to do something. If you write for money, you won’t write anything worth reading.” ~ Ray Bradbury

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“A reason I became a writer was to escape the hopelessness and despair of the real world and enter the world of hope I could create with my imagination.”  ~ Ray Bradbury

“My stories run up and bite me on the leg – I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.”

“The first thing a writer should be is – excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms. Without such vigor, he might as well be out picking peaches or digging ditches; God knows it’d be better for his health.” ~ Ray Bradbury

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“Let us dare to read, think, speak and write.” ~ John Adams

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“Sometimes a flat-footed sentence is what serves, so you don’t get all writerly: ‘He opened the door.’ There, it’s open.” ~ Amy Hempel

“My best stories come out of nowhere, with no concern for form at all.”

“The writing life is a secret life, wither we admit it or not.” ~ Jayne Anne Phillips

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