"Write a thousand words a day and..." - Quote by Ray Bradbury
Write a thousand words a day and in three years you'll be a writer!
More by Ray Bradbury
“You don't read in your own field. You read in that field when you're young, so that you can learn.”
“Nobody listens anymore. I can't talk to the walls because they're yelling at me, I can't talk to my wife; she listens to the walls. I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough it'll make sense. And I want you to teach me to understand what I read.”
“When rivers flooded, when fire fell from the sky, what a fine place the library was, the many rooms, the books. With luck, no one found you. How could they!--when you were off to Tanganyika in '98, Cairo in 1812, Florence in 1492!?”
More on Writing
“A writer can be compared to a well. There are as many kinds of wells as there are writers. The important thing is to have good water in the well, and it is better to take a regular amount out than to pump the well dry and wait for it to refill.”
“Nathaniel Hawthorne once said that easy reading is damn hard writing.”
“I'm a writer and writers either have good memories or nothing at all.”
More on Discipline
“Formula to live your dream: 1. Be bold. 2. Begin now, 3. No exceptions.”
“Do what you don’t want to do to get what you want to get.”
“The whole idea of motivation is a trap. Forget motivation. Just do it. Exercise, lose weight, test your blood sugar, or whatever. Do it without motivation. And then, guess what? After you start doing the thing, that's when the motivation comes and makes it easy for you to keep on doing it.”