Inspiring words

    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 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