Quotes From ZEN IN THE ART OF WRITING BY RAY BRADBURY

1.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. We must earn life once it has been rewarded us. Life asks for rewards back because it has favored us with animations.

2.remember that pianist who said that if he did not practice everyday he would know, if he did not practice for two days ,the critics would know, after three days his audience would know.

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

4. When a man talks from his heart, in his moment of Truth, he speaks poetry.

5.poetry is good because it flexes muscles you don't use often enough. Poetry expands the senses and keeps them in prime condition.

6.if your boy is a poet, horse manure can only mean flowers to him, which is, of course, what horse manure has always been.

7. Is there a novel in you somewhere?

8.seriousness is the Red Do if we let it move too freely amongst us.

9. We are cups, constantly and quitely being filled. The trick is , knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

10. If you can find the right metaphor, the right image, and put it in a scene, it can replace four pages of a dialogue.

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