Ray Bradbury on self discovery

02:05 pm

I learned long ago that I am not seeing directly, that my subconsious is doing most of the “sponging” and it will be years before any usable impressions surface. I wrote a thousand words a day. For ten years I wrote at least one short story a week, somehow guessing that a day would finally come when I truly got out the way and let it happen. The more I did, the most I wanted to do. I have not so much thought my way through life as done things and found what it was and who I was after the doing. Each tale was a way of finding selves. Each self found each day slightly different from the one found twenty-four hours earlier.

– Ray Bradbury