“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.” ― Ray Bradbury

For writing allows just the proper recipes of truth, life, reality as you are able to eat, drink, and digest without hyperventilating and flopping like a dead fish in your bed.

I have learned, on my journeys, that if I let a day go by without writing, I grow uneasy. Two days and I am in tremor. Three and I suspect lunacy. Four and I might as well be a hog, suffering the flux in a wallow. An hour's writing is tonic. I'm on my feet, running in circles, and yelling for a clean pair of spats. [...]

Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

What’s your favourite book by Ray Bradbury?

Mine starts like this: “It was a pleasure to burn.”