If You Want to Write Be a Sublime Fool

23/05/201520/02/2018 Jessica Davidson

“If you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned out and sent rambling. You must write every single day of your life. You must read dreadful dumb books and glorious books, and let them wrestle in beautiful fights inside your head, vulgar one moment, brilliant the next. You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads. I wish for you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon you. May you live with hysteria, and out of it make fine stories — science fiction or otherwise. Which finally means, may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.” —Ray Bradbury

5 thoughts on “If You Want to Write Be a Sublime Fool”

Leeby Geeby says:

26/05/2015 at 11:58 pm

Wow! What a brilliant quote. That’s the kind of thing you want to frame and put up in your writing room.

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1. Jessica Davidson says:
  
  27/05/2015 at 10:14 am
  
  You can always rely on Ray Bradbury for a good quote 🙂
  
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  1. Leeby Geeby says:
    
    29/05/2015 at 9:30 am
    
    That quote is the best thing since sliced bread. That will be mojo for my novel.
    
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cabrogal says:

23/05/2015 at 12:12 pm

I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon you. May you live with hysteria

Oddly enough, earlier today I read The Small Assassin. It’s the first Bradbury story I’ve read for decades too.

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1. Jessica Davidson says:
  
  23/05/2015 at 2:10 pm
  
  I haven’t seen that one, but strangely enough, right now I’m working on some posts about the predator and evil…
  
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