Quotes About Passion

I claim no victory. But there was blood on my gloves when I hung them up. When was the last time you did a story like that, out of pure indignation?

In your life, did you know enthusiasm?' If the answer is yes you enter the sky. If no, you fall to burn in the pit.

When I look back now, I realize what a trial I must have been to my friends and relatives. It was one frenzy after one elation after one enthusiasm after one hysteria after another. I was always yelling and running somewhere, because I was afraid life was going to be over that very afternoon.

You have a right to youth. Go now, if you want. Because if you stay you'll have no time for anything but working and growing old and dying at your work. But it is good work.

I sat and three hours later realized I had been seized by an idea that started short but grew to wild size by day's end. The concept was so riveting I found it hard at sunset to flee the library basement and take the bus home to reality: my house, my wife, and our baby daughter.

Because the Muse persists.

Each of the men I have listed seized a bit of the quicksilver of life, froze it for all time and turned, in the blaze of their creativity, to point at it and cry, Isn't this good! And it was good.

It was a pleasure to burn

I'm not a brave person; I'm an angry person on occasion.

I am a passionate, not an intellectual writer, which means my characters must plunge ahead of me to live the story

In sum, do not insult me with the beheadings, finger-choppings, or the lung-deflations you plan for my works. I need my head to shake or nod, my hand to wave or make into a fist, my lungs to shout or whisper with. I will not go gently onto a shelf, degutted, to become a non-book.

Fire is bright and fire is clean

How long has it been since you wrote a story where your real love or real hatred somehow got onto the paper? When was the last time you dared release a cherished prejudice so it slammed the page like a lightning bolt? What are the best things and the worst things in your life, and when are you going to get around to whispering or shouting them?

Create a character with an obsession, then follow.

I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.

You can only go with loves in this life.

This is the emotional thing, you see — you must galvanize people, so they want to be completely alive and live forever, or the next thing to it. And out of that comes art, then, and survival through emotion.

Then you don't care any more? I care so much I'm sick.

If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it.

He must ask himself, "What do I really think of the world, what do I love, fear, hate?" and begin to pour this on paper.

Burn them all, burn everything. Fire is bright and fire is clean.

Stuff your eyes with wonders [...]live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds.

Fuego brillante Posfacio de Ray Bradbury, febrero de 1993

The more I did, the more I wanted to do.