Ray Bradbury's Wise Words

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If you are writing without zest, without gusto, without love, without fun, you are only half a writer. It means you are so busy keeping one eye on the commercial market, or one ear peeled for the avant-garde coterie, that you are not being yourself. You don't even know yourself. For the first thing that 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.


I need this plastered in front of my face.

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Why?

Do ya reckon birds wonder why they like to fly? I'd suspect not. They are however, damn good at it. Kinda like this Carolyn Gray gal is with writing gay fiction.

See, if birds really stopped to think about it, flying is a lot of work. All that wing flapping and whatnot.

I think that was Carolyn's problem. It's a good thing she stopped worrying about why she was flapping her wings and enjoyed the view.