"...if you are writing without zest, without..." - Quote by Ray Bradbury
...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 a writer should be is-- excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms.
More by Ray Bradbury
“How many times can a man go down and still be alive?”
“I'll hold on to the world tight some day. I've got one finger on it now; that's a beginning.”
“Do you understand now why books are hated and feared? Because they reveal the pores on the face of life. The comfortable people want only the faces of the full moon, wax, faces without pores, hairless, expressionless.”
More on Writing
“If they won't write the kind of books we like to read we shall have to write them ourselves.”
“Even the 'Negro' shows like 'Amos and Andy' and 'Beulah' are written largely by white writers - the better to preserve the stereotypes, I imagine.”
“Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” don’t say “Mortality rose.”