“I never have to worry about schedules. Some new thing is always exploding in me, and it schedules me, I don’t schedule it.”

—  Ray Bradbury

The Paris Review interview (2010)
Context: 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.

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