First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.

Quote by Ray Bradbury

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Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See...

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See...

You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

My stories run up and bite me on the leg-I respond by writing down everything...

My stories run up and bite me on the leg-I respond by writing down everything...

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want...

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want...

The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every...

The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every...

My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing...

My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing...

Jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up...

Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up...

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want...

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want...

If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have...

If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have...

We are anthill men upon an anthill world.

We are anthill men upon an anthill world.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

You fail only if you stop writing.

You fail only if you stop writing.

I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.

You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.

Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is...

Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is...

Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you...

Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you...