Doug Robichaud

17 Motivating Quotes Every Writer Needs To Hear Right Now

Not to write, for many of us, is to die.
Bianca Sparacino
February 27, 2017
“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
— Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing
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“Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spend the rest of the day putting the pieces together.”
— Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing
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“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 Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing
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“What are the best things and the worst things in your life, and when are you going to get around to whispering or shouting them?”
— Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing
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“And 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 Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing
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“Write. Don't think. Relax.”
— Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing
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“In your reading, find books to improve your color sense, your sense of shape and size in the world.”
— Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing
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“Ours is a culture and a time immensely rich in trash as it is in treasures.”
— Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing
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“Read poetry every day of your life. Poetry is good because it flexes muscles you don’t use often enough. Poetry expands the senses and keeps them in prime condition. It keeps you aware of your nose, your eye, your ear, your tongue, your hand.”
— Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing
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“We never sit anything out. We are cups, quietly and constantly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.”
— Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing
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“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 Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing
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“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 Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing
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“What is the greatest reward a writer can have? Isn't it that day when someone rushes up to you, his face bursting with honesty, his eyes afire with admiration and cries, "That new story of yours was fine, really wonderful!”
— Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing
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“Have you written enough so that you are relaxed and can allow the truth to get out without being ruined by self-conscious posturings or changed by a desire to become rich?”
— Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing
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“For 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 would be better for his health.”
— Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing
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“I thought you could beat, pummel, and thrash an idea into existence. Under such treatment, of course, any decent idea folds up its paws, turns on its back, fixes its eyes on eternity, and dies.”
— Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing
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“So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all.”
— Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing
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