Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I'm borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.
Interpretation
Creativity and excitement fuel the generation of new ideas.
This quote by Ray Bradbury emphasizes the powerful connection between excitement and creativity. When ideas spark enthusiasm, they generate their own momentum, leading to a flow of energy that fuels further innovation and exploration in the creative process.
In practice
In a motivational speech to inspire young writers.
I've written about 2,000 short stories; I've only published 300 and I feel I'm still learning. Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he'll eventually make some kind of career for himself as a writer. Ray Bradbury, 1967 interview (Doing the Math - that means for every story he sold, he wrote six "un-publishable" ones. Keep typing!)
I never went to college, so I went to the library.
There must be something in books, something we canβt imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You donβt stay for nothing.
I think the sun is a flower, That blooms for just one hour.
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'd be better for his health.
You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.
You can't be what you can't see. Expose yourself to more role models and diverse experience to broaden your perspectives and ideas.
I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.
You have to be unique, and different, and shine in your own way.
I would like to be known as an intelligent woman, a courageous woman, a loving woman, a woman who teaches by being.
As you take the normal opportunities of your daily life and create something of beauty and helpfulness, you improve not only the world around you but also the world within you.
Growing up in my mother's Pueblo household, I never imagined a world in which I would be represented by someone who looked like me.
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