Ray Bradbury Quotes

Find the passion. It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative. I would go so far as to say you can't do it without that passion.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

There was a time when I read a script and I just got excited about the possibilities.

Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string.

Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

I love the rush of being creative. I really think I live for it.

The thing that I really look for in people is enthusiasm and excitement and, not to sound really sappy, that fire in their eyes.

If I don't get the goose-bump factor when I'm reading it than I can't do it.

True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it.

Enthusiasm is something so positive.

I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to explode.

Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.

I feel fiery in my life. I feel fiery in my art.

Enthusiasm is always an interesting spectacle. When it expresses itself with an honest and artless eloquence, it is difficult to listen to it and not, in some degree, to catch the flame.

It's the best thing, when you are in a creative space, discovering something and being enamored with it and excited by it.

I have to be absolutely drawn to the project. If you're ashamed or bored by it at the beginning, it's going to be a pretty nightmarish thing.

When you're excited about a project, sometimes it's hard to put a script down.

I get excited by being in the studio and could never get burnt out in there.

I've got a lot of energy and a lot of passion.

My passions drive me to the typewriter every day of my life, and they have driven me there since I was twelve. So I never have to worry about schedules. Some new thing is always exploding in me, and it schedules me, I don’t schedule it. It says: Get to the typewriter right now and finish this.

When you're writing something and you know it's good, you get flushed, you can feel the blood coursing through your veins, you feel alive, all your nerve endings stand up, something just clicks.

It's funny when I hear people complain - particularly about the most fabulous parts of being a designer, like when you're getting ready to work on a show. I don't even know that I'm tired. I could stay up for six days straight! No drugs, no coffee, no nothing. I'm just so excited.

Pay attention to your passions. They are the key to starting and finishing the book you are meant to write. I don't believe in talent. I believe in passion.