Read poetry every day of your life. Poetry is good because it flexes muscles you don’t often use enough. Poetry expands the senses and keeps them in prime condition. It keeps you aware of your nose, your eyes, your ear, your tongue, and your hand. And, above all, poetry is compacted metaphor or simile. ~ Ray Bradbury
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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 #9
I leave you now at the bottom of your own stairs, at half after midnight, with a pad, a pen, and a list to be made. Conjure the nouns, alert the secret self, taste the darkness. Your own thing stands waiting way up there in the attic shadows. If you speak softly, and write any old word that wants to jump out of your nerves onto the page, your thing at the top of your stairs in your own private night may well come down. ~ Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury’s Writing Wisdom #6
What can we writers learn from lizards, lift from the birds? In quickness is truth. The faster you blurt, the more swiftly you write, the more honest you are. In hesitation is thought. In delay comes the effort for a style, instead of leaping upon truth, which is the only style with deadfalling or tiger-trapping.~ 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 #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 4
Tip 4: Work according to the program and not according to mood. Stop at the appointed time!
11 Writing Tips from Henry Miller ~ Tip 1
Tip 1. Work on one thing at a time until finished.
Tip 1 of 7 Writing Tips by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Start by taking notes.
You must begin by making notes. You may have to make notes for years…. When you think of something, when you recall something, put it where it belongs. Put it down when you think of it. You may never recapture it quite as vividly the second time.
Source: Open Culture
