"Zest. Gusto. How rarely one hears these..." - Quote by Ray Bradbury
Zest. Gusto. How rarely one hears these words used. How rarely do we see people living, or for that matter, creating, by them. Yet if I were asked to name the most important items in a writer's make-up, the things that shape his material and rush him along the road he wants to go. I would only warn him to look to his zest, see to his gusto.
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“A lot of times people get to a certain age and they quit. I always felt sorry for the Frank Capras, the Billy Wilders, directors like that, because they quit in their sixties. Why would you quit? Think of the great work they could've done in their sixties, seventies, and on up.”
“If I don't have red, I use blue.”
“I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor.”
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“How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.”
“writing is the profound pleasure and being read the superficial.”
“When I did have some success, it further emboldens you to be like, 'No, I'm just going to write what I feel I should write.'”