Don't Worry About Things

Don't worry about things. Don't push.  Just do your work and you'll survive.  The important thing is to have a ball, to be joyful, and to be loving and to be explosive.  Out of that comes everything and you grow.  All you should worry about is whether you're doing it every day and whether you're doing it every day and whether you're having fun with it.  If you're not having fun, find the reason.  You may be doing something you shouldn't be doing.

The gift is part; it's there, but you have to rehearse it for many years.  Doctors don't suddenly become doctors overnight.  They have something in there that comes out for some of them but it takes ten or fifteen years of rehearsal.  Just write every day of your life.  Read intensely.  Then see what happens.  Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.

Ray Bradbury
January 1986