Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love.
Interpretation
Love can be spontaneous and effortless, especially in creative processes like writing.
In this quote, Ray Bradbury expresses how love, particularly in the context of writing and creativity, feels natural and unforced. He suggests that inspiration can strike suddenly, much like falling in love, making the act of creation both fulfilling and exhilarating.
In practice
This quote would resonate well in a speech about the power of love in artistic expression.
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.
Sometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don't know why he's with me. I don't know whether I'm good enough. But if I make him happy, then I'm everything I want to be.
Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.
The world says you are loved because of what you do. Jesus says you can now do all things because you are loved.
To love is to be transformed into what we love. To love God is therefore to be transformed into God.
Love is a time-honored way to transcend the separate-self sense and leap into the sublime; Treya and I held hands, closed our eyes, and jumped.
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