Writing keeps death at bay. Every book I write is a triumph over death. … If we did not know we’d die, we’d wander around and sleep like cats.
– Ray Bradbury
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- Write. Write write write write WRITE. Write. Now.(This is an inspirational writing quote.) – Jen Lynn Anderson
- We earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things.- -“ The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury (1950) – Ray Bradbury
- It’s important to read a book, but also to hold the book, to smell the book… it’s perfume, it’s incense, it’s the dust of Egypt… – Ray Bradbury
- To die, to sleep – To sleep, perchance to dream – ay, there’s the rub,For in this sleep of death what dreams may come… – William Shakespeare
- Something I’m not ready to name works itself under the grip of Charlies death and loosens it, and keeps the nightmare at bay when I fall back asleep. – Trish Doller
- A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats. – Mason Cooley
- Write, write, write! Get your you-know-what in the chair and write more books: write the books of your heart and don’t let stress steal your joy. – Sarra Cannon
- It’s easy to write a sentence, paragraph, or book. What’s difficult is writing the best sentence, paragraph, or book, you can write. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- That’s the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. – Ray Bradbury
- And metaphors like cats behind your smile,Each one wound up to purr,each one a pride,Each one a fine gold beast you’ve hid inside (…) – Ray Bradbury
- To write a good book, you must read one book for each page of the book you are about to write. – MF Moonzajer
- The world is such a wonderful place to wander throughWhen you’ve got someone you love to wander along with you – Man on the man
- A little chocolate a day keeps the doctor at bay – Marcia Carrington
- If cats could write history, their history would be mostly about cats. – Eugen Weber
- Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. – Oscar Wilde
- It is not triumph which defines a man, but tragedy. Triumph always brings out the best in men, but tragedy shows us what we are made of. – Jocelyn Murray
- And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is a gift and a privilege, not a right. – Ray Bradbury
- You only fail if you stop writing.RAY BRADBURY – Sue Ward Drake
- People die every day, psychologically speaking. Some part of them gets tired. And that small part tries to kill off the entire person. – Ray Bradbury
- Looking at her in the hospital he had thought, I don’t know you, who you are, does it matter if we live or die? – Ray Bradbury
- Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you’re doomed. – Ray Bradbury
- ..holding a book but reading the empty spaces. – Ray Bradbury
- Strange. Half my years afraid of life. The other half, afraid of death. Always some kind of afraid. – Ray Bradbury
- So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all. – Ray Bradbury
- Oh, death in space was most humorous. – Ray Bradbury
- Write about fear. Write about pain. Write about heartache and resentment. Nothing worth reading comes from writing what can be said out loud. – Alexandra Cruz
- Two easy steps to be a good writer:1. Don’t write what everyone is writing.2. Write what everyone is trying to write. – Himanshu Chhabra
- My advice would be to write-never to stop writing, to keep it up all the time, to be painstaking about it, to write until you begin to write. – Gabriel Fielding
- I would willingly pass my life writing and re-writing the same book – that one book every writer carries within him – the image of his own soul. – Ignazio Silone
- Writing a book is like raising a child, the only difference is you don’t have the ????ing part in writing a book. – MF Moonzajer
- Writing a book isn’t just about ‘writing a book.’ Unfortunately, it’s about selling it, and getting it out to the masses. – Margaret Aranda
- The best advice is not to write what you know, it’s to write what you like. Write the kind of story you like best- write the story you want to read. – Austin Kleon
- The only way to write is to write. Writers write. And when they’ve written, they write some more. – Jasper Fforde
- Just to keep the bad dreams at bay, she took a swig out of a bottle that smelled of apples and happy brain-death. – Terry Pratchett
- Be kind and considerate with your criticism… It’s just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book. – Malcolm Cowley
- If you only had a year left to live, what book would you write?Now, write that book. – M Kirin
- Only a meditator is able to die consciously as life is an opportunity to prepare for death. Meditation is a death, a death of the ego. – Swami Dhyan Giten
- I sleep and sleep and sleep, yet I still have an unquenchable thirst for it. – Maria Elena
- I love sleep. I need sleep. We all do, of course. There are those people that don’t need sleep. I think they’re called ‘successful. – Jim Gaffigan
- Buy this book , buy this book , you need this book, buy book now.’Subliminal messaging works! – Nick Jimbanis