A stranger is shot in the street, you hardly move to help. But if, half an hour before, you spent just ten minutes with the fellow and knew a little about him and his family, you might just jump in front of his killer and try to stop it. Really knowing is good. Not knowing, or refusing to know is bad, or amoral, at least. You canβt act if you donβt know. β¨ Ray Bradbury (2017). Something Wicked This Way Comes: A Novel, p.181, Simon and Schuster
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- Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love.
- Donβt let people interfere with you. Boot βem out, turn off the phone, hide away, get it done. If you carry a short story over to the next day you may overnight intellectualize something about it and β¦ βΆ
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