“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 (1920-2012), sublime writing fool, quoted in Jon Winokur, “Advice to Writers,” 2000.
• Editorial Comment: Craziness, foolishness, madness . . . check.
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