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.
Love is a lot like a backache. It doesn't show up on x-rays, but you know it's there.
In loving one another through our works we bring an increase of grace and a growth in divine love.
Give me hunger, pain and want, Shut me out with shame and failure From your doors of gold and fame, Give me your shabbiest, weariest hunger! But leave me a little love.
I met this girl when I was ten years old,_x000D_ _x000D_ And what I loved most she had so much soul._x000D_ _x000D_ She was old school, when I was just a shorty_x000D_ _x000D_ Never knew throughout my life she would be there for me.
I've found what I was looking for, Child: what people call love between a man and a woman is a season. And if, at its flowering, this season is a feast of greenery, at its waning, it's only a heap of rotting leaves.
I love you as one loves certain dark things.
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