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I never ask anyone else's opinion. They don't count.
How many times can a man go down and still be alive?
I've been writing every day of my life for 65 years.
First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys.
I don't tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.
And they were all, when their souls grew warm, poets.
Acting without knowing takes you right off the cliff.
If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it.
When you're older you want to learn from other people.
Life is like underwear, should be changed twice a day.
The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.
In order to be creative, you don't have to be original.
It's lack that gives us inspiration. It's not fullness.
Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being?
There's no reason to burn books if you don't read them.
I don't talk things, sir. I talk the meaning of things.
Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.
I'll be damned if death wears my sadness for glad rags.
I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
Most members of Congress are politicians. They're bores.
There is only one type of story in the world-your story.
The most dangerous thing you can do is know who you are.
I'm not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.
There's no one way to be creative. Any old way will work.
Marriage made people old and familiar, while still young.
I don't go around thinking I'm Ray Bradbury all the time.
Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.
Beer's intellectual. What a shame so many idiots drink it.
And suddenly everything, absolutely everything, was there.
I don't need to be vindicated, and I don't want attention.
Books are alive, you see. They're not dead, they're alive.
I'm not a serious person, and I don't like serious people.
I don't see myself as a philosopher. That's awfully boring.
First, find out what your hero wants, then just follow him.
I think the sun is a flower, That blooms for just one hour.
The home environment can undo a lot you try to do at school.
You've been put on the world to love the act of being alive.
I was not predicting the future, I was trying to prevent it.
My favorite writers have been those who've said things well.
You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
We earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things.
Writing can be described in two verbs: Throw up and clean up.
Night had come on like the closing of a great but gentle eye.
Don't they get afraid, then?" "They have a religion for that.
Ideas result from the collision of metaphors inside the head.
If someone sends you a love letter you've got to answer back.
It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid.
You're either in love with what you do, or you're not in love.
What church could compete with the fireworks of the pure soul?
Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.